Adverse Childhood Experiences and the path towards healing. You are not alone.
I share my trials, my victories, and my stories with you in hopes that if any of you were ever touched by childhood abuse or neglect, as I was, you will see yourselves in my experiences and feel strengthened to voice what you had not been able to before. I hope we can learn together why we respond to life through a particular lens, and that there are ways to climb out of this prison of pain, silence, and shame.
My name is Bess Hilpert

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Christmas Poems

Hopes and Tears Throughout the Years… “In answer to your letterI found on the wallI note your requestFor gifts large and small.For you may not knowBut I’ll tell you right hereThat times are so toughThat I ate my reindeer.” … Grand Pa 1931 Santa Fe, New Mexico And so, the ninety-two-year tradition began in the… Continue reading Christmas Poems