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Almost 80 & Still Terrorized by Childhood Trauma

In this month’s Women’s Press Carol Koepp tells a sobering story of her life-mate Tom living with the pain of trauma and abuse inflicted upon him as a child and how the ACE (Adverse Childhood Experience) based programs are working to heal afflicted children.

From Carol’s article;

Living With the Bear –Most of us have heard of this common “fight or flight” response. The stress responses are turned off after a person returns to the safety of the cave…. however, “What happens when you can’t experience safety in your cave because the bear is living in the cave with you?

Republished from the Kids At Risk Action blog as written. No images from the original corpus appear in any form.

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