Elkhart Tolson Center holds self-healing event

ELKHART, Ind. -- The Elkhart Tolson Center held an event for self-healing.

It was the launch of “Self-Healing Communities” in Elkhart County, a collaborative effort with Triple-P Parenting and the Parent Coalition. 

Tonight’s guest speaker talked about the central nervous system and how expectation versus experience can cause adversity in one’s life. Skill-building and community-building are both tools to counterbalance that adversity.

“And so, a way to think about it is that with the expectations that the nervous system has, the greater the distance between the experience and the expectation is kind of the adversity or friction that’s introduced into the system," stated Nancy Michael, the Director of Education and Co-Director for Neuroscience and Behavior at the University of Notre Dame. "Positive childhood experiences are the protective factors, right? These people that are in our lives that kind of hold us up. They literally counterbalance the impact of this friction and adversity.”

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