National Daughter’s Day…
What a privilege to be an instrument of generational change. With each milestone and opportunity they experience that I was deprived of, I’m grateful for the resilience that gives me freedom and joy to escort them through these stages.
Girls become young women who are victimized when they are conditioned to believe that their big emotions and sensations are a liability, not an asset.
These daughters are strong, trained and capable of defending themselves physically, but even better, believing that their bodies are trustworthy and that their voices matter.
A few weeks ago I saw this beautiful evidence in a conversation about a concerning instance at school:
“But mom, I have no evidence.”
But then she self-corrected.
“No, my body doesn’t lie. I KNOW I can trust these sensations.”
Those beliefs led her to self-advocate. She had a voice. She was believed.
As a Mom, I can’t ask for more than that. To my Clarissa (almost 16) and my Mikayla (15), happy National Daughter’s Day.
Jenny Brackman has served Arizona children and families impacted by ACEs for over 20 years. Her formal education comes from ASU where she studied closely under Bob and Barb Weigand, pioneers in the field of infant and toddler mental health.
In 2010 she and her husband chose to be foster parents and adopted a sibling group of three from foster care. Eight years later, she believes her best education has come from parenting five children and her marriage of almost 18 years.
Motivated by her own family’s experience with compassion fatigue, Jenny founded Rezilia to bring Dr. Eric Gentry’s research on resilience to lay-people.
Jenny is currently the COO of the Forward-Facing® Institute creating resources to equip a new generation of leaders with resilience.
In her free time you can find Jenny spending time with her family, making kombucha, or fighting with the guys at her local Muay Thai gym.
In 2010 she and her husband chose to be foster parents and adopted a sibling group of three from foster care. Eight years later, she believes her best education has come from parenting five children and her marriage of almost 18 years.
Motivated by her own family’s experience with compassion fatigue, Jenny founded Rezilia to bring Dr. Eric Gentry’s research on resilience to lay-people.
Jenny is currently the COO of the Forward-Facing® Institute creating resources to equip a new generation of leaders with resilience.
In her free time you can find Jenny spending time with her family, making kombucha, or fighting with the guys at her local Muay Thai gym.
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