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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

Into the Quiet Now

Quashing Night Terrorism… Friends, I recently traveled to celebrate my sister’s significant birthday milestone. It was a glorious week filled with so many laughs, too much food, dancing into the moon-lit night, chardonnay sips, clinking glasses, stories shared, whispers of love, and more laughter. I returned to Texas with my heart full and my body… Continue reading Into the Quiet Now

Finding Forgiveness

Changing Perspective To Change Thoughts… Rumi, thirteenth century poet and Sufi mystic, teaches us to “Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.” Since releasing my book finding I, A Journey of Repair so many of you have asked: “Bess, how could you have forgiven…?” Friends, forgiveness was not hard. The… Continue reading Finding Forgiveness