Hey, if you are a follower and know what this entry is referring to, well good. If you are not a follower of this Blog, just know that there is some background to this weird looking entry that you missed.
I finally figured out how to provide the link to the ACE Study site. (Ah…also known as Cut and Paste theory? As the kids say, “Duh”.) As you can tell, there is a lot of luck involved in getting this Blog off the ground. (As Stephen King put it, our generation grew up ‘page oriented’, this generation is ‘screen oriented’). But I’m getting better at it. (Okay, just in my own defense, I haven’t really spent all this time trying to figure out how to cut and past that link. I’ve been busy.)
The Ace Study is a remarkable, longitudinal study out of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Program in San Diego, encompassing thousands of participants, over years. It is a correlative study, and so overwhelming in scope it is almost breath-taking to see the connections. See the link below. (Oh, and It’s free. Imagine that. Something for free.)
I found that Robert Sopolsky’s recently published book, BEHAVE, (Not free. But worth every dollar) provides a substantial body of research into the brain and abuse, that is a good supplemental text that dovetails into the ACE Study. But with a more neurological look at the brain, answering the questions of how and why?
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/
It’s not necessary to read the entire study, but if it is your interest, if you have experienced childhood abuse or know someone who has, or not sure that you were abused as a child (you’d be surprised how some people missed seeing it as abuse), this is the place to be. This study, and the trainings several years ago with Dr. Felitti, was a hallmark event in my work and life. It helped both Janis and me understand what happened to Janis, and hence to us. Sopolsky’s book put the how and why into place.
The next posting, Part Three, will be about the ACE Study (not the study itself), another brief read on Sopolsky, and a little summing up of Parts one and two.
Then back to the Blog. And Entangled.
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