The connection between adverse childhood experiences and health risks has been explored in many studies. But there’s been little investigation into the effect of positive experiences. Now that’s ...

I told her she was a good mother and that cultivating positive experiences ... patients overcome the consequences of adverse childhood and community experiences (ACEs). These traumatic experiences ...

Importantly, positive childhood experiences were associated with better mental health and well-being even for youth who experienced adverse childhood experiences. Positive childhood experiences ...

Childhood experiences can be either benevolent (positive) or adverse (negative). People differ substantially in the amount of stress they experienced as a child. Curiously, however, BCEs haven’t ...

And those positive experiences ... we’ve worried a great deal about what we call ACEs, or adverse childhood experiences, which can disrupt children’s lives and get in the way of the safe ...

Interestingly, adverse and positive childhood experiences did not interact to change levels of adult narcissistic traits, ...

“Although childhood experiences encompass both positive and adverse experiences, most studies have primarily focused on adverse childhood experiences, which has resulted in less known of the ...

found adverse experiences negatively impact childhood cardiovascular health yet positive ones had a beneficial effect and could prevent some of the damage caused by adversity. For the study ...

Adverse childhood experiences such as emotional and physical ... found that self-acceptance -- positive attitudes towards oneself and acknowledging and accepting multiple aspects of yourself ...

“This is the antidote to adverse childhood experiences,” Brewer said. “The goal is for children and their families to flourish and thrive despite the adversities they may experience ...

According to Samji, having more positive childhood experiences was associated with lower levels of depression and anxiety, and better life satisfaction and mental health. Conversely, people with a ...