Robert Olcott

Apr 22, 2024 | pacesconnection.com | Laura Gallant |Robert Olcott

By Laura Gallant, 4/22/24, https://positiveexperience.org/blog/Environmental justice is a key movement to increasing access to positive childhood experiences through the Environment Building Block of HOPE. This movement was created by people of color to address inequities of environmental protection in their communities.

Apr 12, 2024 | pacesconnection.com | Robert Olcott

Next Sunday the zoom conference "Sunday with Gopal" will take place (for free). More information and Zoom-link: https://www.sundaywithgopal.comEveryone is invited who is interested in solving actual problems and who wants to understand what lies at the heart of all our problems and suffering. You are most welcome to attend this meeting. You will see how it is possible to deal with deep and unresolved attachment trauma that lead to all the problems we have in everyday life.

Mar 9, 2024 | pacesconnection.com | Robert Olcott

“It is not the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.” - Aisha Mirza. “The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human.” - Patricia Deegan. “Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success.

Mar 9, 2024 | pacesconnection.com | Robert Olcott

The Journal of the American Medical Association has reported that the national economic burden of ACE-related adult health conditions was $14.1 trillion annually ($183 billion in direct medical spending and $13.9 trillion in lost healthy life-years), or $88, 000 per affected adult annually and $2.4 million over their lifetimes.

Mar 7, 2024 | pacesconnection.com | Robert Olcott

Glenn R. Schiraldi, Ph.D. Psychology Today blog post, March 6, 2024This post is part of a series on adverse childhood experiences. Read the other parts here. Taking good care of yourself is vital during and after the recovery process. Intelligent self-care:Signals that you matter, that you are worthwhile and valuable. This is an important counterbalance to the damaged self-esteem and disparaging self-talk that typically result from ACEs.Lifts the mood at the cellular level.