At Studio Hope we honor the stories that shaped you and offer gentle tools to help your heart and nervous system heal. Studio Hope offers language and support for understanding the long term effects of childhood adverse experiences and provides tools to help your heart and nervous system heal.

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What Are ACEs? (Adverse Childhood Experiences)

ACEs or Adverse Childhood Experiences are overwhelming or stressful events that happen in childhood. These can include abuse neglect growing up around addiction or mental illness witnessing violence or experiencing instability such as foster care involvement or inconsistent caregiving.

Understanding ACEs is not about labeling your past. It is about making sense of the invisible impact early experiences can have on your nervous system your relationships your sense of safety and your overall wellbeing.

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Your ACE score does not define you. It simply gives language and clarity to the ways your body and heart may have learned to survive. The most important truth is that healing is absolutely possible. With compassion creative expression nervous system support and safe connection the brain can rewire and the body can slowly move out of survival mode. Studio Hope exists to be a place where those with high ACE scores can experience gentleness understanding and tools that truly help.​

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Healing From ACEs Through Positive Childhood Experiences

Research shows that the antidote to Adverse Childhood Experiences is the presence of Positive Childhood Experiences often called PCEs. PCEs include feeling safe with caregivers having supportive adults who listen being encouraged in creativity having spaces to play and express emotions experiencing belonging and being surrounded by people who delight in you. These experiences help rebuild the nervous system create new patterns of safety strengthen identity soothe overwhelm and support healthy attachment.

Studio Hope is designed to provide these healing experiences for children teens and adults. Through creative coaching expressive arts nervous system support and compassionate connection we help repair the places that ACEs once impacted. Here healing is gentle steady and deeply possible.