I can envision an end to the ACEs epidemic. The current loneliness epidemic and the current family estrangement epidemic are also rooted in ACEs. Relying on professional therapy alone will never do it. Most of us either don’t need professional therapy or can’t afford it; and there will never be enough good therapists to meet the need - over half the people in the US (approximately 60%) have experienced ACEs. Key to the strategy is broad based self-analysis, supported by professional therapists as needed.
I’m an ACEs survivor myself with an intergenerational history of family estrangement. I left home at age 14 to avoid further abuse. After some important success with my own self-analysis, I eventually became a narrative psychologist and university professor researching, teaching, and guiding others through a particular self-analysis process. I received my PhD in Human Development and Family Studies from Cornell University in 2004. It’s been 33 years and I’m still obsessed with self-analysis because many of us have shown in our research and practice that it is effective, affordable, and fast. I never sought to earn a PhD or become a tenured professor, those things just happened in the process of learning and sharing about self-analysis for ACEs-survivors. I recently left the university as I found myself spending more and more time helping to run the institution - as honored as I felt by these roles. My role is somewhere in the ACEs movement, so here I am to do what I can.
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