Risks Increase for Child Abuse: Self-Care Even More Critical

The ultimate customer for all of us: our children and the children in our communities. Yet with the economic difficulties, children in families that might otherwise be able to maintain their stability and health become more at risk for experiencing adverse childhood experiences, those ACEs that are so expensive for so long (www.acestudy.org).

Self-care, important all the time, is even more important when stress increases. A lot of times I think we are like coyotes gnawing on ourselves and then lashing out at the weaker simply because our level of self-care is inadequate for our stressors. If we are to protect our ultimate customers, and to reduce the risk of a crippled generation, we owe it to ourselves, each other and them to increase our self-care and, ahem, get a little happier.