The Four Loves Framework is one path to help those with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) find their new normal with creativity. The Four Loves, Familial Love, Professional Love, Personal Love and Protection Love are methods of care, nurture, and acceptance to position victims-survivors-thrivers as they do the hard work of building their new normal after childhood trauma.

Let me explain further. After trauma One needs to build a new normal—because their normal life was shattered, destroyed, flipped upside down, or never there in the first place. Building a new normal is the path to heal after ACEs and with a great psychologist, personal creativity is a powerful, wordless tool. I feel that a person can work towards wellness without the aid of a art therapist but instead using a counsel for and personal creative practices to vent feelings, adjust thinking and understand self-worth.

The Four Loves are Familial Love, Professional Love, Personal Love and Protection Love.

Currently I am working on my book where I dive more deeply into The Four Loves framework and share findings from my research.