Title: Resilience: A Powerful Weapon in the Fight Against ACEs - Center for Child Counseling
Headings: Resilience: A Powerful Weapon in the Fight Against ACEs
Resilience: A Powerful Weapon in the Fight Against ACEs
What is resilience?
How does resilience develop?
Resilience can be the antidote to ACEs
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Content: They get up again and again and keep moving. This is a compelling way to describe resilience. As Oliver Goldsmith, an 18th century Irish poet, put it: “ Success is simply standing up one more time than you fall down.” What makes some people so resilient and what does this have to do with ACEs? As we’ve learned, ACEs are Adverse Childhood Experiences that have a dramatically detrimental effect on a person’s lifelong mental and physical health. The statistics for those with high ACE scores seem bleak. They suffer from more diseases, greater levels of depression, alcoholism, and substance abuse. They die, on average, 20 years younger than those with no ACEs. But there is hope and resilience might be the key.