The Social Cure

Meditation and mindfulness practices are a useful and accessible tool for healing from childhood adversity. In this bonus episode, Athalie guides us through a loving kindness meditation.

Compassion meditations, like this loving kindness one, help us develop the brain circuits involved in caring and connection with other humans.

The script for this meditation comes from UC Berkeley's greater good in action res...

Rowan, our producer, joins us to talk about life shared with a partner and children who have high ACE scores. He shares about helping other heal, while maintaining your own mental health.

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Athalie and Joseph explore the practice of mindfulness and how it helps people heal from Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). They talk about their own journeys with mindfulness and how to get started.

We discuss the following resources in this episode:

• Headspace Guide to Meditation documentary on Netflix
• 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Exercise - University of Rochester

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Lesley is a mental health counselor who specializes in attachment focused trauma therapy. She works with children and their families, including children in foster care and adoptive parents. We explore how working with a therapist can bring healing to Adverse Childhood Experiences.


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Maria Montoya joins us to talk about how Adverse Childhood Experiences impacted her life, the healing she has experienced, and the new legacy she is building for her own children.

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Dr. E'Toyare Williams, also know as Dr. Torie or Dr VicTORIEus, wrote her doctoral dissertation on how school's extracurricular programs could serve as a buffer to youth experiencing ACEs. Her research studied how these structured activities could reduce the negative impacts for youth experiencing Adverse Childhood Experiences.

Resources

During this episode we talked about the ACEs section of the CDC website.

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Mariam Yahya is an elementary school teacher. She discusses how our education system can support children who face Adverse Childhood Experiences. She shares how individual teachers and the education system at large are becoming more aware of ACEs. We also explore the ways we still have to improve.


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Dr. Anna Kaminski is a medical doctor who has experience working with her patients on the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences. She has some great insights on working with individual patients, as well as how our overall health care systems could be improved.


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Louise Pietrafesa is a clinical social worker and licensed metal health counselor who's had lots of experience with ACEs throughout her career. She worked on an  interdisciplinary team at an obesity clinic in Seattle in the early 1980's that uncovered many of the same findings as the Kaiser study on ACEs that is most known in this area and was published in 1998.


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Co-host Joseph shares his journey and how he became involved in The Social Cure podcast. Joseph talks about his own of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the various places he has found healing.


Resources

Here are some resources we discuss during this episode:

• Nadine Burke Harris TED Talk - How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime
• Take the ACE Quiz

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Athalie shares how she decided to start The Social Cure podcast and how the concept of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) has impacted both her work as a medical professional and her personal journey.

Here’s some resources we discuss during this episode:

• Original ACE study done by Vincent Felliti and colleagues. Published in 1998 in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine.
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van d...

Ken Massada, host of The Things We Don’t Say podcast, joins us to talk about his adverse childhood experiences. Ken shares his thoughts on the unique challenges faced by children who are immigrants and people of color.

Here’s where you can find more from Ken:

• Things We Don't Say Podcast
• @twdspodcast on Instagram

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Seattle-based comedian General Mutombo  joins us to talk about his adverse childhood experiences, how they've impacted his life, and where he has found hope and healing for himself and those around him.

Here’s where you can find more from General Mutombo:

• General Mutombo Uncut Podcast
• @generalmutombo1 on Instagram
• @chefmambadubai on Twitter

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We're continuing our exploration of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) by exploring different types of stress, including toxic stress. Toxic stress is one of the primary ways we experience long term damage to our bodies as a result of adverse childhood experiences.

In this episode we discuss podcasts related to mental health. Here is a small selection of our favorites to get you started. 

• Other People's Prob...

How do our childhood experiences turn into chronic disease as we progress through our lives? This episode dives into the layers that are behind many of our common chronic and debilitating illnesses. We're exploring a pyramid from the CDC that visualizes the progression of our experiences and how they can contribute to an early death.

In this episode we discuss The ACE Pyramid from the CDC. 

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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) affect nearly everyone. How do these experiences live on in our bodies and how do we recover from them? This first episode of Season One introduces the topic of  ACEs. Throughout this season we'll dive deep into the science, experiences and recovery from childhood adversity.

In this episode we referenced several ideas that you may want to learn more about.

• Original ACE study done by Vince...

The Social Cure explores the latest research in the medicine and public health. A lot of this information is only understood by small groups of specialists, but I believe we can all use these insights to improve our personal health and happiness and the well being of the larger communities around us.

In season one of The Social Cure we'll be exploring Adverse Childhood Experiences. Since a famous study published in th...