S2:E20 - Resilient Roots: Understanding ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences)

In this compelling episode, we dive into the profound impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and explore the nuanced layers of childhood trauma. Join us as we discuss the lasting effects these experiences can have on mental health, relationships, and overall well-being. Through personal stories and expert insights, we aim to shed light on the resilience of the human spirit and the paths to healing. Whether you've faced similar challenges or are looking to understand and support loved ones, this episode offers valuable perspectives and hope. Tune in for an enlightening conversation on turning pain into power.
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[@nem.8332]

Love your tattoo Keilani, just wanted to say I love the content you guys make and am really glad I found your podcasts, videos and reactions. Instant subscribe.

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[@feralhuman8790]

From the perspective of someone completely shaped and defined by my childhood abuse and trauma, I would offer these mental droolings, or maybe we should go with droppings...Why do so many victims of child abuse deny and/or minimize their victimization?? One reason is in how society chooses to DEFINE child abuse. The vicious, violent assault of children by their parents? Perfectly legal. Just call it "spanking". Verbal threats of violence?? "I'll beat your butt if you do that again!", just call it "discipline." Society teaches every child that to feel fear, trauma, terrorization, it's perfectly normal.
Every generation of humans clings to the LIE that it is more evolved, more enlightened, than in the past. But it is a lie. Humanity never evolves positively. It only moves sideways, finding a new way to mis-define what constitutes child abuse. Because anything that HARMS a child is child abuse. But no, in year 2024 each and every child IS harmed, must be harmed, as a matter of social policy, as a core structure of cultural decree. Every adult insists upon the RIGHT to harm children. Why? Because THEY were harmed as a child. The Law of Reflection. But how many adults possess the evolved consciousness and courage necessary to consciously recognize and embrace this Truth?? Virtually none.
Personally, my father raped me hundreds of times throughout childhood from my earliest memories, and my mother slowly and systematically destroyed my vision by pouring chemicals into my eyes throughout childhood. Terrible abuse. Terrible trauma. Yes. But just as great, the trauma of dealing with the fact that nobody CARED about what was being done to me. There was no help, nobody to turn to for help. The fact it was MORE terrifying to think of TELLING, more terrifying to envision ASKING someone for help. And you can say this terror was in my MIND, that it was not TRUE. But it was true. And it is true today, in 2024. Because society teaches and instructs every child that it is okay for them to be harmed and abused. So it was in the Middle Ages, and when I grew up in the 1970's and early 1980's, and so it is today. Only the methods vary, only the excuses and pretenses of which abuse is okay and which is not, vary.
To be a child is to be OWNED. A piece of property. An object to be MOLDED. You have no RIGHTS. You are not actually HUMAN. Just a step above a fetus. And oh, we must CHAMPION our sacred right to murder fetuses. But even escaping womb murder, a child is not really human. Merely a "Poison Container", as Psychohistorian Lloyd deMause describes it. The child exists to absorb the trauma of all past generations of humans. This is deeply cloaked, a forbidden insight, that must be purged from all self-realization, from all consciousness. But how can childhood trauma be addressed, if this fundamental FACT of behavioral motivation, is eternally INVISIBLE, purged from all consciousness?? This is why humanity has always been psychologically crippled, because childhood trauma is universal, and it is the driving force behind all of human failure, all of human dysfunction, collectively, as a species.
I continue to greatly value your willingness to probe the depths of human mind functionality, Keilani and James. And I understand the human need to perceive progress, to envision yourself enlightened. But at the same time, try to also see that the humans of the Middle Ages, and the 1970's, they also perceived themselves as being enlightened. Is all this "progress" that you perceive, actually concrete?? Or is it a projection of what you want to see, of how you want things to be, within yourselves and within humanity as a whole? How many children today, actually find the courage to ask for help? And of those that do, how many ARE actually helped?? And how many are just ignored? Or merely put into a different environment that is itself abusive and traumatic, just in a different way than it was before they asked for help?
Wishing you both the strength of mind to positively deal with the traumas of life.

[@nem.8332]

Wow, I clicked like from the first sentence lol, then I clicked "show more" lol.
Not saying the amount you wrote is a bad thing because it's not it just surprised me and I found it funny (the surprise not the content).

[@kgjaegerjaquez404]

You might not see this but I hope you do can you do a reaction to Come what may by Imminence it’s a heavy song like screams and stuff like that but the lyrics are just…yeah…. I hope you do a reaction to it I really do 🥺