I love this Fern, and as a person who DREAMS of writing a musical about all of this — seriously, I have a “treatment” for one — that chorus could truly be the resounding theme. Along with the Maya Angelou quote about “now that we know better, we do better.” I forget the exact quote. But you’ve inspired me to add this to the treatment. I’…
I love this Fern, and as a person who DREAMS of writing a musical about all of this — seriously, I have a “treatment” for one — that chorus could truly be the resounding theme. Along with the Maya Angelou quote about “now that we know better, we do better.” I forget the exact quote. But you’ve inspired me to add this to the treatment. I’ve sent it to a few people along the way — in the midst of my more than full-time job and recovery from trauma-evoked gut miseries — and I just get that I must keep going in these several directions to advance this. I dream of Heather Cox Richardson, Bruce Perry, Oprah Winfrey, and the CEO of PACEs Connection, Igrid Cockhren, who is a psych adjunct professor at Tennessee State University, having studied so much history and African American parenting and trauma, doing a webinar or show together on “What Happened to US” (as in us and the U.S) as was mentioned with Ingrid and our colleague Mathew Portell interviewed Dr. Perry in a webinar I produced last summer. Adding HCR and OW to the mix? How powerful and SEEN that would be!
❤️🦋❤️. Imagine if HCR or HRC and OW were with them and they all did it together! “To understand history, you have to know trauma. To understand trauma, you have to know history.”
The root cause of all the trouble in history is trauma. We can help prevent it. We know this. Preventive Justice is available. We just have to get people to understand we all — ALL of us — can have and deserve better. Also recommend we add Mathew Desmond, author of “Poverty by America” to the conversation. Brilliant new book. Highly highly recommend. There is a lot here, my friends!
"Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can negatively influence development. However, the lifelong effects of positive childhood experiences (PACEs) can mitigate the detrimental effects of adverse ones."
I love this Fern, and as a person who DREAMS of writing a musical about all of this — seriously, I have a “treatment” for one — that chorus could truly be the resounding theme. Along with the Maya Angelou quote about “now that we know better, we do better.” I forget the exact quote. But you’ve inspired me to add this to the treatment. I’ve sent it to a few people along the way — in the midst of my more than full-time job and recovery from trauma-evoked gut miseries — and I just get that I must keep going in these several directions to advance this. I dream of Heather Cox Richardson, Bruce Perry, Oprah Winfrey, and the CEO of PACEs Connection, Igrid Cockhren, who is a psych adjunct professor at Tennessee State University, having studied so much history and African American parenting and trauma, doing a webinar or show together on “What Happened to US” (as in us and the U.S) as was mentioned with Ingrid and our colleague Mathew Portell interviewed Dr. Perry in a webinar I produced last summer. Adding HCR and OW to the mix? How powerful and SEEN that would be!
https://youtu.be/YxI1OVVBGSw
This really is worth the watch.
❤️🦋❤️. Imagine if HCR or HRC and OW were with them and they all did it together! “To understand history, you have to know trauma. To understand trauma, you have to know history.”
The root cause of all the trouble in history is trauma. We can help prevent it. We know this. Preventive Justice is available. We just have to get people to understand we all — ALL of us — can have and deserve better. Also recommend we add Mathew Desmond, author of “Poverty by America” to the conversation. Brilliant new book. Highly highly recommend. There is a lot here, my friends!
"Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can negatively influence development. However, the lifelong effects of positive childhood experiences (PACEs) can mitigate the detrimental effects of adverse ones."