Happy Wednesday,

If you're wondering why the newsletters have been shorter these past couple of weeks - or maybe you enjoy them being more concise - it's because of summer traveling combined with us completely reworking the Empathy Gym. We'll talk more about that next week, but for this week let's jump straight into the podcast.

🎙️ Podcast Episode 97: A Rerun of "The Epidemic of Trauma and Why NVC is the Cure!"

Today on It's All About Connection, NVC with Dr. B, we're talking about the epidemic of trauma. In the 1990s, there was a landmark study done called the adverse childhood experience study, and it's only been in recent years that it's gained any traction. Many people now in education and in the mental health field know of this as the ACE Study.

The ACE Study is from the early 1990s, where they sampled about 17,000 people, having them take a survey that asked them, "From the ages of 0 to 17, how many of these things happened to you?" And they listed out 10 indicators things like sexual abuse, physical abuse, did you grow up in a household where there was mental illness, did you grow up in a household where there was drug abuse, did you grow up in a household where your parents were separated or divorced, where you saw a mom being treated violently? 

There were 10 of these, and they would have folks say yes or no to that, and then they would walk away with a score from 0 to 10, 0 meaning no trauma. 10 meaning the most. And what they found, after giving that survey to 17,000-plus people is two-thirds of the people said that they had had at least one of those things, and many of them said many of those things happened to them when they were between the ages of 0 and 17.

We are going to talk about this study and how we think that the technique of NVC is the cure.

Ready?! Let's get started...

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💪 In The Empathy Gym This Week ❤️

Upcoming Schedule

7/27 Wednesday 3:45 pm EST - Routine Workout with Logan

7/28 Thursday 10am EST - Routine Workout with Jordan

7/29 Friday 12pm EST - Action Requests Intensive with Jordan

8/1 Monday 3pm EST - Empathy Intensive with Cindy

8/3 Wednesday 3:45 pm EST - Routine Workout with Logan

Cheers,

Ryan