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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Mending a Flu Break

Kintsugi for People… Happy New Year, friends! The Holiday Season, trimmed with cookies, presents, hopes, and children’s saucer-sized eyes gave way to the flu, passed from one family member to the other, finally landing hard on my doorstep. The nearly four-week “flu-sie” journey taught me isolation, impatience, frustration, and ultimately surrender.  How I wished I… Continue reading Mending a Flu Break