Dear AcesConnection community: Below is a note of invitation to trauma informed providers in the Bay Area from Ana Joanes, the creator of the documentary, Wrestling Ghosts. This is a film about a young mother healing from childhood trauma as she raises her young sons: it is heartwarming, inspiring, and serves to break the isolation around the struggles so many of us face when we parent with ACEs.
Ana and her crew will be in Oakland for a screening of her documentary next weekend on Saturday, Sept. 30 and I am helping her organize for the event. Please read her invitation below and consider joining us! Also please consider sending the invitation to your clients and community. This is intended to be a healing event for all who gather.... Our hope is that it catalyzes awareness
If you are not in the Bay Area, but would like to see this film come to your area, reach out to Ana to invite her! (her email is below)
All my best, Angela
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Dear healers and trauma-informed providers:
Oakland: Saturday, September 29th, 5:00pm at the First Congregational Church of Oakland.
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/
Tickets: https://wrestlingghosts.
Wrestling Ghosts, a raw, intimate, and heart-opening documentary about childhood trauma and healing, is premiering at the LA Film festival on Sept. 27th.
Wrestling Ghosts follows the epic inner journey of Kim, a young mother who, over two heart-breaking and inspiring years, battles the traumas from her past to create a new present and future for her and her family. In this intimate portrait, Kim shares deeply personal moments that most of us keep secret in shame, and invites us into her counseling sessions. With her counselors’ help, Kim opens up to new ways of thinking and uncovers what has blocked her from experiencing the joy and connection she most desires. She learns about the impact of childhood trauma on her brain, and how, tragically, this very damage causes the trauma to be passed on to her own children. Armed with knowledge and compassion, she pursues new strategies to heal herself.
"Wrestling Ghosts is very moving and very stirring—a real accomplishment. The portrayal both of mental suffering and of therapy is profound and beautifully done." -Andrew Solomon, Author of The Noonday Demon & Far from the Tree
“Incredible. Haunting and strange and beautiful and incredibly moving.”
-Dan Cogan, Founder Impact Partners
Oakland: Saturday, September 29th, 5:00pm at the First Congregational Church of Oakland.
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/
Tickets: https://wrestlingghosts.
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