by Abby | Mar 13, 2025 | ACEs
The new psychobiological theory of everything. That is how some researchers refer to adverse childhood experiences or ACEs. In Childhood Disrupted, Donna Jackson Nakazawa unpacks and applies much of this groundbreaking research to the reader’s life. In this article,...
by Abby | Mar 13, 2025 | ACEs
To begin our discussion of the effects of ACEs on behavior addictions, we first need to define behavior addictions. What Are Behavior Addictions? When we think of addiction, we typically think of addiction to substances like alcohol or other drugs. However,...
by Abby | Mar 13, 2025 | ACEs
The original ACE study did not examine the effects of ACEs by gender, as researchers were still starting this line of research. However, more recently, researchers have been looking at these gender differences and found some interesting things. As we go through...
by Abby | Mar 13, 2025 | ACEs
This section will cover the effects of ACEs on vocation and include summaries of research on their effects on marriage, parenting, and career. Unfortunately, there isn’t any research on how ACEs can affect priestly and religious vocations, so we won’t be able to...
by Abby | Mar 13, 2025 | ACEs
Research on the effects of ACEs has not focused much on the effects of ACEs on the soul. However, there has been lots of research on how religion and spirituality can protect a person from the potential adverse effects of ACEs, which we discuss here. Despite this lack...
by Abby | Mar 13, 2025 | ACEs
When it came to the effects of ACEs on the mind, the original ACE study solely looked at the risk of depression. These findings indicated that ACEs increase the risk of developing depression. Since the original ACE study, many studies have looked at how ACEs...