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Everything here is labeled by what kind of source it is, so you always know whether you are reading peer-reviewed research, a book, a practical tool or a personal reflection.
17 entries
Felitti, Anda et al. — American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 1998
The foundational paper from the CDC–Kaiser Permanente collaboration reporting graded associations between adverse childhood experiences and adult health risk. Findings are population-level associations, not individual predictions.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC's overview of ACEs as potentially traumatic events in childhood with possible long-term effects — and its emphasis on safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments as protective.
Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
How early experience builds the brain's foundational architecture, and why the quality of a child's environment and interactions matters to later capability.
Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
The distinction between positive, tolerable and toxic stress — and the role supportive adult relationships play in keeping stress responses in the tolerable range.
Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
Responsive back-and-forth interaction as one of the most practical, teachable ways adults support healthy development.
Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
Resilience research consistently points to at least one stable, committed relationship with a supportive adult as a central protective factor.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Prevention and protective-factor strategies, including positive childhood experiences and connection to caring adults.
Ann Masten
A developmental-science account of resilience as ordinary adaptive processes rather than rare heroism.
Daniel J. Siegel
Interpersonal neurobiology: how relationships and the brain shape one another across development.
Bruce D. Perry
Clinical case narratives on childhood trauma, regulation and the role of predictable, caring relationships in healing.
John Bowlby
The original formulation of attachment theory — the human drive toward proximity with a protective figure under threat.
Viktor Frankl
Meaning as a load-bearing human capacity, written out of extreme suffering.
John Wooden
Character, preparation and standards from a coach who taught people first.
Brené Brown
Vulnerability, shame and belonging in relationships and leadership.
The Trenches — Trench Tools
A private, device-only reflection on the relationships, experiences, beliefs, community and purpose that formed your heart.
The Trenches — Trench Tools
Name the people entrusted to you, and ask honestly whether your presence is currently lowering or raising their fear.
The Trenches — Trench Tools
A reflection sequence for the moment before you respond to a behavior you don't understand.