The host Alexis Honey and guest Licensed Clinical Social Worker Jennifer Lusinger talk about unpacking trauma with the ACE (adverse childhood experiences) at the heart of their conversation. The pair discuss how trauma is felt by marginalized communities and how we can prevent a high ace score in our children lives. They also discuss how the pandemic has unveiled the need for mental help. Jennifer goes over how we need to normalize the benefits of therapy.
Alexis and Jennifer reveal their perfect ace score and how they work through that.
The two go over societal pressures to stay busy and the involuntary responses to trauma. Jennifer touches on how being responsive and securing an attachment to our littles changes their response to trauma and how we can avoid perpetuating generational trauma while Alexis addresses the importance to treat our children with respect and reflects on her childhood and how she remembers her feelings being invalidated.
This episode is full of testimony and resources so we all can begin to bring that perfect ACEs score down.
Resources cited in the episode:
BOOKS ON TRAUMA:
The Body Keeps the Score, bessel vanderkolk In the realm of hungry ghosts, Gabor MATE WAKING THE TIGER, PETER LEVINE
ACE’s score:
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/index.html https://www.ted.com/talks/nadine_burke_harris_how_childhood_trauma_a ffects_health_across_a_lifetime?language=en http://www.odmhsas.org/picis/TraningInfo/ACE.pdf
ADDICTION:
Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY9DcIMGxMs&feature=youtu.be
What causes addiction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbQFNe3pkss
ATTACHMENT:
LOVE SENSE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyCHT9AbD_Y
EMDR: https://www.emdria.org/about-emdr-therapy/
RESEARCHERS:
Brene Brown
Nadine Harris-Burke
Dan Siegel
Bruce Perry
Gabor Mate
Peter Levine
Susan (Sue) Johnson
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