In this final episode of Season One we recap what we learned about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and talk about our favorite moments on the show. Thank you for joining us for season one! We look forward to being back in your podcast feeds later this year.

Meditation and mindfulness help many people find recovery from childhood adversity. In this bonus episode, Joseph guides us through a body scan meditation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.