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A New Documentary About Breaking the Cycle of Trauma is Launching This Fall!

 

We are thrilled to announce the premiere of Wrestling Ghosts, a documentary about breaking the cycle of trauma, at the LA Film festival on Sept. 27th.

 “Incredible. Haunting and strange and beautiful and incredibly moving.”

-Dan Cogan, Founder Impact Partners

Wrestling Ghosts follows the epic inner journey of Kim, a young mother who, over two heartbreaking and inspiring years, battles the traumas from her past in order 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.

 “Such a moving and powerful film! I will be thinking about it for a long time. This film is a gift to those who have suffered childhood trauma, and my hope is that people will indeed find a path to begin their healing journey through it.”

-Alison Fornes, Family Constellation Practitioner

The LA screening, followed by two event screenings in the Bay Area, will launch the Wrestling OUR Ghosts outreach campaign: an effort that combines screenings with healing support classes, workshops, articles, video and more. We've already started to provide support on the site, with our Healing Program, and Ask Kathy!  We have a lot of exciting things brewing and we are looking forward to sharing them with you! The ACEs Connection community has been a resource and an inspiration throughout the making of this movie, and our goal is for this movie to support the important work you are doing throughout the country. We are looking forward to collaborating on screenings, workshops, online classes, podcasts, articles and more! Please do not hesitate to write to us and share your thoughts and vision.

With Gratitude,

The Wrestling Ghosts Team

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I really believe that stories like these enable us to viscerally connect to the ACEs research in a way that reading the science alone does not. Really looking forward to seeing the movie when a screening pops up near San Diego!

Jill

This movie was SO GOOD. It was hard to watch in a good way. It was honest, realistic, and showed how / why those of us Parenting with ACEs can't always just do things differently even when we wish we could. 

I loved the honesty, the support group scenes, ALL THE TYPES of treatment, all the work, and though it's only one woman's story it does show parenting and I hope, will usher a REALLY overdue conversation with and by and about parents who are parenting with ACEs. 

Cis

Watched this documentary several nights ago and cannot stop thinking about it. It is haunting — because it is honest, real, and gives hope. 

Love it. Will write an in-depth review soon. For now? Visit the website at wrestlingghosts.com and learn more. Kim and Matt’s healing journey is epic, encouraging. Their boys are so precious. I am so glad they found hope and healing and that their story is being shared. Anyone who struggles with self-acceptance, parenting, marriage, focus, purpose, and those root cause ACEs and attachment issues, will find hope here! 

Excited to view it! I love the idea of following someone along their healing journey, into and through therapy. 

If you would like to join me on-air to discuss this project, your mission, your message, on The Healing Place Podcast, feel free to send me a private message. I am flexible with my time . . . day, evening, or weekends and we can record via Zoom or phone interview.

Best wishes on your movie premiere!

Peace,
Teri

www.teriwellbrock.com

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