Biosynthesis International, EABS & OABS, Benzenrüti 6, Heiden (2026)

10/04/2026

🧠 Adverse Childhood Experiences: evidence from the ACE study
The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (Study on Adverse Childhood Experiences) is one of the main research efforts investigating the relationship between childhood experiences and health outcomes across the lifespan.
Conducted starting in the 1990s through a partnership between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States and the healthcare organization Kaiser Permanente, the study analyzed data from more than 17,000 adults. Participants completed questionnaires about their childhood experiences and had their health data tracked.

📋 Types of adverse experiences
The study identified different categories of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), including:
physical, emotional, and sexual abuse,
physical and emotional neglect,
exposure to domestic violence,
living with family members with mental illness or substance use,
parental separation,
incarceration of family members.
These experiences may occur individually or in combination, and the presence of multiple factors simultaneously is common.

📊 Prevalence
The data indicate that adverse experiences are common in the population:
about two-thirds of participants reported at least one ACE,
a significant portion reported multiple experiences,
approximately 12% experienced four or more ACEs.
These figures demonstrate that exposure to childhood adversity is a common and relevant public health issue.

📈 Dose–response relationship
One of the main findings of the study is the existence of a dose–response relationship. This means that:
- the greater the number of adverse experiences, the higher the risk of health problems in adulthood.

This relationship was consistently observed across different outcomes.

🩺 Health impacts
The study found associations between ACEs and various health problems, including:

Mental health
- increased risk of depression,
- anxiety,
- suicidal ideation.

Risk behaviors:
- alcohol and drug use
- smoking
- risky sexual behaviors

Physical health
- cardiovascular diseases
- diabetes
- cancer
- respiratory diseases

An increased likelihood of using psychotropic medications and greater severity of symptoms in various conditions were also observed.

🧬 Associated biological changes
In addition to clinical outcomes, related research points to biological changes in individuals exposed to ACEs, such as:
- higher levels of stress hormones
- changes in immune function
- alterations in gene expression
- Structural changes have also been identified in brain regions involved in memory, emotion, and regulation.

📉 Lifelong impacts
The effects of adverse experiences are not limited to childhood. In adulthood, individuals exposed to ACEs show, on average:
- worse physical and mental health.
- higher prevalence of chronic diseases.
- greater adoption of health-risk behaviors.
The study also associates these experiences with reduced life expectancy.

🌍 Final considerations
The ACE study demonstrates that adverse childhood experiences are strongly associated with a wide range of negative health outcomes throughout life. Its findings helped establish these experiences as an important public health risk factor.
Furthermore, the data indicate that these experiences often occur in combination and have cumulative effects, reinforcing the importance of their identification and understanding in different social and clinical contexts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_childhood_experiences

07/04/2026

When we talk about health, we often think of the absence of illness. But health, in a deeper sense, is a state of integration—between body, mind, and what gives us a sense of meaning.

The body’s biology holds stories, experiences, and emotional memories. What cannot be felt or expressed often remains in the body, showing up as tension, symptoms, or repeated patterns.

Science increasingly shows that there is no real separation between the physical and the emotional. The nervous system, hormones, breathing, and mental states are in constant dialogue. To care for health is also to care for how we feel, how we relate, and how we make meaning of our experiences.

Healing trauma is not only about understanding—it is about safely reorganizing these experiences within the body, with presence and connection.

Health is also movement. It is the ability to adapt, to move between states, and to restore balance after stress. Not rigidity, but flexibility. Not control, but awareness.

On this World Health Day, an invitation: listen to your body, welcome your emotions, and remember—health is not only about surviving, but about bringing presence, meaning, and connection to your life.

26/03/2026

For a long time, we believed that the shivers we feel when encountering art were due solely to sensitivity, memory, or cultural background. But what if part of this experience had also been imprinted on the body, silently, long before any conscious memory existed?
A recent study conducted by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and published in PLOS Genetics investigated precisely what many artists know from experience: aesthetic chills, that moment when music, poetry, or an image pierces us with physical intensity.
By analyzing genetic data and emotional reports from more than 15.000 people, the researchers observed that around 30% of the variation in the tendency to experience these “shivers” is related to familial factors. What can be understood as genetic variants, from a psychotherapeutic perspective, are emotional experiences stored in the limbic system that have shaped our unique traits. In other words, the way art moves us may be, in part, connected to our childhood or even to transgenerational emotional likes and dislikes.
This finding cannot reduce the aesthetic experience to a biological formula. On the contrary, it deepens the mystery. It demonstrates that what we perceive as deeply intimate also dialogues with our bodily heritage. The shiver is not merely a metaphor:
It activates neural systems similar to those involved in processing biologically significant stimuli, such as food or survival. Art, therefore, is not superfluous. It touches on fundamental layers of our internal organization.
This also reveals intriguing nuances. Some transgenerational or early experiences that shape our preferences may be linked to the personality trait known as “openness to experience,” which is associated with aesthetic curiosity and engagement with different artistic languages. Others appear to be specific to each medium: the way someone responds to music may differ from how they respond to poetry or visual art.
This may explain why the same work can move one person to tears while leaving another speechless. It is not a matter of greater or lesser connection, but of unique modes of resonance shaped by personal or family experience. Each body listens to art through its own sensory architecture.
This study confirms something that artistic practice has always intuited: *sound organizes us*. It moves through the nervous system, modulates breathing, and alters states of consciousness. When a song gives us goosebumps, it is not just about emotion. It is body, memory, heritage, and presence in dialogue.
Part of this sensitivity is inscribed in our genes that bind us to our lineage, and all of this through experience, encounters, and shared listening. Art remains a realm of relationships. Biology does not limit it; it simply reveals that art moves us more deeply than we previously assumed.
Perhaps a shiver is nothing more than that: the moment when who we are inside recognizes something essential that resonates on the outside.

Source:
Corporaal, Anniek. Research conducted by Giacomo Bignardi and team at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Published in PLOS Genetics.

search: https://neurosciencenews.com/genetics-aesthetic-chills-30156/

21/03/2026

Dove Ascending

The dove is a symbol of rising high,
leaving the earth and searching the sky.

When the body dies, love lives longer;
beyond the borders of death, the spirit is even stronger.

The dove is the peace beyond all our fears,
the dove is the love deeper than all our tears.

This bird is the messenger, flying from heart to heart,
reminding us to see the light beyond the deepest dark.

The past has gone, but all good memories remain;
the future has not yet come, but joy can transcend pain.
The present is here and now, the fruit of the past
and the seeds of the future. Presence can last
as long as the breath of the dove,
giving and taking all that is shared as love.

21/03/2026

A childhood lived with lightness, love, and security is the foundation on which a whole life can flourish. It is in this beginning that a child naturally and deeply learns to trust the world, to express themselves, to play, to be amazed by simple things, and to build bonds filled with affection. A sweet and healthy childhood is not about perfection, but about presence, care, and the freedom to be a child — respecting each stage, each discovery, and each moment.

When a child is allowed to fully live their childhood, without the rush to grow up or being placed in roles that do not belong to them, their development becomes more integrated. Playing, imagining, getting messy, laughing out loud, and even crying when needed — all of this is part of an essential process of emotional development. The absence of adultification allows the child to build strong internal resources that will be fundamental throughout life.

We can think of this process as an organic construction, where each stage is necessary to support the next. Just like in nature, there is an intelligent flow that organizes growth from the inside out. When this flow is respected, the child develops with more balance, vitality, and authenticity. When it is interrupted or rushed, gaps may arise that often show up later in adult life.

Caring for childhood is caring for the future. It is ensuring that every child has the right to be exactly that: a child — with joy, love, affection, and the freedom to fully experience each stage of their own journey.

19/03/2026

From March 11 to 14, the EAP (European Association for Psychotherapy) conference took place in Viena.

The EAP is the European organization that brings together the various schools of psychotherapy in Europe and sets training standards for the different modalities of psychotherapy. It plays an active role in advocating for high-quality psychotherapy and an independent profession. At this conference, as part of our European organization, the EABS, our colleague and psychotherapist Dr. M. Paz Cardín García represented our school’s interests in Europe.

We are delighted to have her as Biosynthesis’s representative at the EAP, and we thank her for her participation.

18/03/2026

On March 8, 2026, a one-day conference on research in psychotherapy took place in Athens, co-organized by the Hellenic Biosynthesis Center and the Hellenic Institute of Play Therapy and Drama Therapy “To Athyrma”.

Through inspiring talks and experiential workshops, participants explored the role of qualitative methodology in psychotherapy research, the development of research questions emerging from clinical practice, and the importance of experience, narrative, and embodied awareness in the process of therapeutic change.

The event created a valuable space for dialogue, learning, and exchange among professionals, highlighting the meaningful connection between research and clinical practice.

Dr. Issari, Dr. Lily Anagnostopoulou and Dr. Tsabika Bafiti

17/03/2026

When emotions are not lived, named, or allowed, they do not disappear, they simply change places. Instead of flowing as a natural part of experience, they become held in the body, like energy with nowhere to go. The result is a kind of silent “inner noise” that interferes with mental clarity, decision-making, and even the way we perceive ourselves and the world.
It is like trying to use a powerful computer with a frozen operating system: the hardware is intact, but the commands do not respond with precision. The brain, disconnected from embodied emotional experience, loses efficiency. Thoughts become repetitive, behaviors turn automatic, feelings seem confusing or distant.

The body, however, does not forget. It records tension, restricted breathing, rigidity, unexplained fatigue. What could not be felt continues to be physiologically “held,” consuming vital energy that could otherwise be available for creativity, presence, and clear choices.

When emotion finds a pathway, through body awareness, breathing, movement, or simply the permission to feel, something reorganizes. The energy that was trapped begins to circulate again. Thinking becomes clearer not because it was forced to change, but because it is no longer carrying an invisible weight. Behavior becomes more spontaneous. Feeling gains shape and meaning.

Integrating emotions is not about losing control, as many people fear, it is about restoring inner coherence. It allows mind and body to function again as a single living system, in which feeling, thinking, and acting are not separate processes, but expressions of the same organic intelligence.
Perhaps mental efficiency does not depend solely on better reasoning, but on feeling more fully, as Damasio's research suggests. Because when experience is truly embodied, the organism stops fighting itself and begins to work in favor of life.

11/03/2026

Biosynthesis is not something that you leave in your therapeutic cabinet, it is what you take with yourself in your life. Biosynthesis is the way of living” - says Nutsa Verkhviashvili, a Biosynthesis psychotherapist from Georgia, Tbilisi. Watch the video to see another perspective on Biosynthesis.

09/03/2026

For International Women’s Day we've asked British art historian, author and founder of The Great Women Artists podcast, Katy Hessel, to select her favourite women artists from our archive: ⁠
“I want to live inside an Isabella Ducrot world. I see her almost like a great-grandmother of art, sitting at the very top, giving us wisdom, and getting us to always consider the perspectives of different ages, and how sacred our time on this planet is.”⁠
Watch the full list picked by Katy Hessel here: https://channel.louisiana.dk/series/seen-and-selected-by-katy-hessel Ver menos

Louisiana Channel

08/03/2026

There is a vital pulse within every woman. A continuous cycle that remains a basic principle of change in life and the structure that sustains everything. Goodbyes and new beginnings, revisiting what is worthwhile, what has shaped us, and what we are not yet ready to give up.

A continuous movement that expands, contracts, nourishes, and transforms.
The female body is a territory of creation, not only because it can generate new life, but because it knows how to sustain processes, go through changes, and allow something to mature at its own pace. Within it lies a silent wisdom, written in the cells, the cycles, the breath that deepens and restores presence.
Generating life in all its forms is the most powerful expression of the life force: in the female body, the force opens up to welcome another, in the body and in the heart, which reorganizes and changes the mother forever, learning the most powerful lesson, namely that life is not just for oneself.

When a woman returns to her body, she returns to the source, the place where vitality and sensitivity coexist, where fragility and strength are not opposites, but parts of the same pulse.

There is a strength that makes no noise.
A strength that does not impose, but sustains.
That does not harden, but remains alive.
It is the strength to feel deeply and let life transform the self in inconceivable ways.
Of moving according to one’s own rhythms.
Of transforming without disconnecting from one’s essence.
When the body is truly inhabited, life begins to flow again.
And everything that is alive flourishes.

01/03/2026

Once again, and as many times as necessary, we want to stand together for peace in the world 🙏

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