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Murray dealt with several ACEs throughout her life including drug abusive parents, neglect, a parent with a chronic illness, among several others. She had some would say a very challenging childhood. She had to care for herself and make decisions for herself. Like several youth she made several poor decisions throughout her like, but she also made several remarkable decisions during her youth. Even though she did not accept a lot of her ACEs at first and ignored the fact that her family had numerous stressors, she finally accepted them later in life and became resilient toward them to move on and be an accomplished adult who graduated from Harvard. PYD programs amongst several other youth programs are working to help children be as successful and as resilient as Murray was even after all of their ACEs. Theses youth programs are great for children with several family stressors …show more content…

She was able to turn the toxic family stress to tolerable family stress. She was able to develop resilient coping mechanisms without the help of a trusted adult and without having PYD. Murray was able to grow and thrive because of the family stressors that occurred in her youth. Unlike several other youth across the country Murray had little to no support, but was able to be resilient against all odds and overcome it all. Youth across the country are struggling with adverse childhood experiences and they are starting to get more support in school and the start of PYD. These children will hopefully start developing more resilience toward their family stressors and overcome it all, like Murray did, to become successful member of society. Resilience is something several youth can develop overtime or may be born with, but several youth that have theses ACEs are unable to be as resilient as the author, Liz Murray, of the book Breaking Night

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