In this podcast, I interview Dave Lockridge, the founder of ACE Overcomers a Center for Resiliency and Trauma-Informed Training. Dave shares a about The ACE Study, the largest study of its kind with more than 17,000 participants. The purpose of the study was to see how stressful and traumatic childhood experiences influence later physical and emotional health.
The study observed 10 types of adverse childhood experiences: emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, emotional neglect, physical neglect, domestic violence against the mother, mental illness of a family member, substance abuse in the home, parental separation or divorce, imprisonment of a household member. As your ACE score increases, the risk for the following health problems increases in a strong and graded fashion: alcoholism and alcohol abuse, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), depression, ischemic heart disease (IHD), liver disease, fetal death, illicit drug use, smoking, attempted suicide, unintended pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, partner violence, obesity.
Dave specializes in teaching survivors of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) how to understand trauma, so they can better care for themselves while overcoming the effects of ACEs. He also trains businesses about trauma, so they can better care for those who are still suffering from adverse childhood experiences.
You can contact Dave at dave@aceovercomers.org and visit the website at www.aceovercomers.org
1:00 - What’s your Origin Story
2:00 Pastors Marry people and they bury people
3:20 What is an ACE?
5:30 Prevention vs remediation
6:30 How God Called Dave
7:30 The ACE Overcomers Curriculum
10:00 Mini ACE Survey
14:00 What does a person’s ACE Score mean?
15:45 Toxic Stress - How Stress Affects the Body
18:00 Where’s the hope in having a high ACE score?
19:00 Congress Woman Shot and she was able to retrain her brain
21:00 Stigmas associated went mental conditions
22:00 Diagnosis and Trauma
24:00 Medications and Regulation
29:00 Can someone who struggles with trauma help others with trauma?
33:00 Self Talk and Stinkin' Thinkin'
35:00 Stress and Cognitive Functioning
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This is Hope is a podcast that discovers hope through stories of struggle and transformation // The podcast interviews social entrepreneurs and people who are actively engaged in transforming their communities to better understand the process of hope and social transformation.
