Peggy Bodde

I sat in a room packed with volunteers for a nonprofit agency that helps children who have been abused and neglected. The guest speaker was talking about Adverse Childhood Experiences scores (ACE) and how understanding these scores can help us in our volunteer work. Each of us was given an ACE sheet to calculate our …

“You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb…. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in …