Adverse Childhood Experiences

You heard me mention this a little bit earlier Adverse Childhood Experiences.

Kaiser Permanente did a study of DR Nadine Barkers so what this study showed was that the more trauma somebody has earlier in life, later in life they experience more challenges when it comes to health when it comes to how their brain develops when it comes to how they are resilient, we hear resiliency a lot and in the way that they can respond right.

We see in this pyramid over here that there are often bad health issues disease disability social problems and early death so understand that, when I talked about one in four children have been abused of some sort. This is a lot. I mean we’re talking millions of people and in the end, people end up in the workplace and they end up acting out kind of childish behavior in an adult body why the young mind when it was injured and all these different things, different attachment theories, different things in psychology so what’s really important to understand is that when you see somebody having childish behavior as an adult. It’s because they probably have a lot of trauma in their childhood. That’s not healed yet.

So, it’s very important to understand this because the foundation is critical now. Does this mean that somebody who had a lot of trauma early in the childhood can’t change? Absolutely not. People can change. People can change for the better through the awareness for counseling through all the different things so understand they can actually turn their life around with health issues you know by taking charge of things instead of being a subconscious victim of the past and letting the subconscious mind control the present so. It’s very important understanding this is key and understanding this as a manager will help you understand when people are acting in childish ways in the workplace that there is a child. They call it the inner child. That is wounded that is scared and that is acting out so try to have a conversation with that adult but also think that adult is perhaps acting like a child so being mindful and understanding their brain the physiology and being very calm clear in your communication and kind of being that you know nurturing parent but not letting people get away with things that can help you deal with people with adverse childhood experiences.