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- 2024
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Reparenting the Inner Child: A Masterclass on Building Resilience and Healing Childhood Trauma is a transformative educational series created by Wholehearted.org with Dr. Jennifer Hays-Grudo and Dr. Amanda Sheffield Morris, two renowned developmental psychologists and trauma experts who co-developed PACEs (Protective and Compensatory Experiences). This profound 16-episode program invites mental health & wellness professionals into an evidence-based, compassionate journey of healing, exploring how Adverse Child Experiences (ACEs) and Protective And Compensatory Experiences (PACEs) shape our lives. Viewers will gain invaluable tools to help clients navigate their trauma, build resilience, and reconnect with their authentic selves through the concept of reparenting. This masterclass offers professional growth and also personal insight, helping mental health professionals foster a deeper, more compassionate approach to healing.
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Part One: Introduction
In this opening episode, Dr. Jennifer Hays-Grudo and Dr. Amanda Sheffield Morris invite us to explore the depths of human experience, focusing on the unseen wounds carried from childhood. Through the lens of ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences), they offer a compassionate understanding of how early life adversities shape our minds, bodies, and relationships. The episode introduces the possibility of healing through the cultivation of PACEs (Protective and Compensatory Experiences), which serve as a foundation for resilience. Therapists are guided to recognize that healing is not simply about treating symptoms but addressing the core developmental needs that were unmet in early life. -
Part Two: The Theory of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
In this episode, we explore the origins of the groundbreaking ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) research, sharing how childhood trauma, often hidden or minimized, profoundly shapes our physical and emotional health. By unpacking the story of ACEs through real-life examples and scientific findings, the presenters emphasize how these early experiences leave an indelible imprint on our bodies, leading to long-term health issues. Yet, the message is clear: ACEs are not our destiny. Healing is possible through understanding, mindfulness, and the cultivation of protective experiences. -
Part Three: The Whole Picture: Protective And Compensatory Experiences (PACEs)
This episode explores, as an example of shared adversity, the global hardship shared during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on its impact on adolescents and families. The research shows that while many experienced increased anxiety, depression, and loneliness, resilience was found in supportive relationships and protective experiences. These Protective and Compensatory Experiences (PACEs), like strong family bonds and community involvement, acted as vital buffers against the negative psychological effects of the pandemic. -
Part Four: Effects of Chronic Stress
In this episode, we explore how the stress our bodies are wired to endure, once a tool for survival, can over time become a source of harm. Chronic stress rewires the brain, damages the immune system, and leaves deep imprints on both body and mind. But just as stress can wound, healing comes through connection and presence. Dr. Morris shows us how love, trust, and meaningful relationships provide the path to recovery, softening the edges of life’s inevitable hardships. -
Part Five: ACEs & PACEs Group Discussion
This episode explores the profound influence of both Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Protective and Compensatory Experiences (PACEs). Through reflective discussions, participants uncover how resilience can arise from the balance between trauma and the presence of supportive, meaningful relationships. The conversation emphasizes how these factors shape not only survival but also personal growth and healing. -
Part Six: PACEs Demonstration & Discussion
In this episode, we engage in a powerful demonstration and discussion of PACEs (Protective and Compensatory Experiences). Participants reflect on how these experiences, when integrated into their lives, have counterbalanced the weight of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). The conversation highlights the transformative potential of PACEs in healing, resilience, and personal growth. -
Part Seven: ChAACEs: Childhood Adaptations to ACEs
This episode examines childhood adaptations to ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences), encouraging participants to reflect on how they coped with early adversity. The session delves into how these survival strategies, while initially protective, often lead to long-term challenges. Through mindfulness practices and personal storytelling, this episode provides insight into how trauma shapes our responses and how we can begin to transform them. -
Part Eight: Exploring ChAACES: Discussion & Sharing
In this episode, we examine how childhood adaptations to ACEs shape patterns of behavior and coping into adulthood. Through reflective discussion, participants explore which adaptations served as short-term survival strategies and how these behaviors continue to influence their lives today. The session encourages a deeper awareness of family dynamics, secrecy, and resilience, helping therapists guide clients in making conscious choices about which patterns to keep and which to release. -
Part Nine: Choosing Your Hard
In this heartfelt episode, we explore how we can choose our response to life’s inevitable challenges. Through a guided mindfulness practice and a deeply personal story of love, loss, and healing, we learn how to recognize outdated coping mechanisms and make room for healthier, more compassionate ways of being. This episode highlights that while hardship is unavoidable, we have the power to decide how we navigate it—and in doing so, we reclaim our sense of agency, resilience, and capacity for growth. -
Part Ten: Exploring GrAACEs: Grownup Adaptations to ACEs
In this episode, we explore how Grownup Adaptations to ACEs (GrAACEs) provide a framework for acknowledging the ways in which we can continue healing from our childhood trauma as adults. Through personal stories of growth, participants reflect on the power of adult coping mechanisms and how they can consciously choose to move beyond maladaptive behaviors developed in childhood. -
Episode Eleven: Inherited Trauma: How Epigenetics & Intergenerational Trauma Shapes Emotional Regulation
Dr. Amanda Sheffield Morris dives into how stress hormones, such as cortisol, affect our ability to regulate emotions and maintain healthy relationships. They emphasize how intergenerational trauma and protective factors, often referred to as "ghosts and angels in the nursery", shape our parenting practices and emotional responses. This session highlights the importance of recognizing these patterns and learning how to rewire our emotional responses to foster healthier relationships. -
Episode Twelve: Intergenerational PACEs: Understanding Trauma and Resilience in Families
In this episode, we explore the generational patterns of trauma and resilience, specifically how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and protective factors (PACEs) shape family dynamics over time. The presenters share their personal experiences with generational adversity, illustrating the deep connection between inherited trauma and the role of resilience-building practices. By recognizing both harmful and healing patterns, therapists can guide their clients toward breaking cycles of trauma and fostering resilience through meaningful interventions. -
Episode Thirteen: The Resilient Brain: Creating PACEs Plans
Episode thirteen explores the profound impact of nurturing environments on our stress response systems, emphasizing the importance of resilience-building practices in adulthood. Through guided meditation, participants visualize themselves surrounded by love and compassion, leading into a discussion on how we can actively grow new neurons through practices like physical activity, nutrition, meaningful relationships, and managing stress. The episode stresses that our brains are continually evolving, and with intentional practices, we can reshape our biology to foster resilience and well-being. -
Episode Fourteen: Virtues & Vices: A Deep Dive Into Ourselves
In this episode, we explore the process of deep personal transformation through the practice of open mind, heart, and will. By guiding participants through a powerful meditation, we aim to help them move beyond the surface and confront the deep-seated patterns, fears, and judgments that keep them from becoming their best selves. This practice offers a pathway for healing past trauma, breaking unhelpful habits, and fostering new perspectives, encouraging a compassionate and mindful approach to change. -
Episode Fifteen: Once Upon a Time: Creating A Resilience Narrative
In this episode, we explore how fairytales provide a framework for understanding universal human needs, fears, and virtues. Through personal storytelling, participants are invited to rewrite their own "fairytales", recasting their experiences of adversity, trauma, and growth. This method helps transform painful narratives into empowering stories of resilience, where virtues like perseverance, compassion, and creativity become the driving forces toward healing and fulfillment. Therapists will gain insights into using this storytelling technique with clients, encouraging them to embrace their role as the hero of their own story. -
Episode Sixteen: Beyond Trauma: Creating Resilient & Trauma-Informed Communities
The final episode guides viewers through a loving-kindness meditation, offering a space for healing and compassion. By directing positive wishes towards oneself, family, community, and all beings, it fosters a deeper sense of connection and safety. The meditation introduces the importance of shifting from judgment to empathy, inviting us to see behaviors as responses to trauma. Therapists can utilize this meditation to help clients reconnect with their inner strength and cultivate self-compassion as they navigate trauma recovery.
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