Hopefully this will be one of many blogs from an ACE kid all grown up. Funny how things, people and events take on such a different perspective as an adult. I'm hoping to delve into some deep territory in my own life and I'm hoping it will be beneficial to many others too. Now a little bit about me.
I am a homeschooling mom. Just celebrated our 27th wedding anniversary with the love of my life, a great Christian man. We have homeschooled over 20 years so far with 2 kids graduated from top nation schools and 2 more kids still at home. Hubby teaches Math and activities and I teach the rest. I have five children altogether-we met my eldest child several years ago for the first time. You see I had given her up for adoption when I was raped at the age of 13 by a sexual predator.
My childhood and home were not a happy one at all from day one. It's strange to actually get out of that world, which I did. 
The universe can really change if you place yourself into a different atmosphere. The home I have made with my husband is nothing like the hell I lived as a child. Actually my life has been a polar opposite of the way I was raised. I didn't talk about any of my childhood traumas, molestations, rapes, abuses, neglects, etc. except to my husband or therapists through the years. I made peace with my past, cut unhealthy relationships with certain family members, resolved how to be a nurturing woman, wife, mother and turned to the Lord Jesus for guidance in all things.
But one of the hardest things in my life to deal with has not been my past, it's that I am chronically ill. I have had 17 surgeries from everything to gallbladder, endometriosis, kidney stones, cataracts, etc. and I'm under 50! I have had migraines since the age of 5, have diverticulosis of the entire colon-diagnosed in my teens and break out in hives & rashes during stressful times-including weddings!. Then, I started getting PTSD symptoms about my past after a recent surgery. So we went to a marriage counselor who mentioned I should take the ACE test. I scored an 8. Surprise!
So here I am. And it amazes me that I never saw the connection between my health problems and my childhood before now. I will be delving into that universe too...
Sincerely Yours, Christi
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