Dr. Brian Alman

09/27/2025

When Oprah Spoke Her Truth ✨

It was a groundbreaking moment when Oprah Winfrey sat with Barbara Walters and revealed that she had been sexually abused as a young girl.

That moment broke the silence for millions. 💔
It showed the world that trauma doesn’t just “go away.”
It can shape relationships, health, and self-worth for decades.

Oprah’s openness gave survivors permission to feel less alone… and gave all of us a powerful reminder: telling your story is the first step toward healing. 🌱

🔎 The Science Confirms What Oprah Lived
The landmark ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Study, co-led by Vincent Felitti, MD, proved that childhood trauma—including abuse and neglect—can have lifelong impacts:
⚠️ Higher risk of depression, anxiety, and PTSD
⚠️ Chronic illness like heart disease and diabetes
⚠️ Addiction, unhealthy coping, and shortened lifespan

But here’s the hope: healing is possible—at every age. ❤️

🌍 From Research to Real-World Healing
For decades, Dr. Felitti and I (Brian Alman, PhD) have worked to transform ACE science into solutions that help people heal.

That’s why we created True Sage and the enlightn mobile app:
✔️ Take the ACE & Positive Childhood Experiences (PCE) assessments
✔️ Learn “SOS tools” for stress and overwhelm
✔️ Access guided healing sessions that address the root cause
✔️ Build daily practices for resilience, better sleep, mindfulness & self-compassion

This isn’t just about surviving. It’s about reclaiming health, peace, and joy. 🌟

💡 Your Past Does Not Define Your Future
Oprah’s courage reminds us: silence is not safety—it’s a prison. But healing is freedom.

👉 Start your journey today:
🌐 www.TrueSage.com
🌐 www.enlightn.me

❤️ Let’s honor Oprah’s bravery by breaking the cycle of silence—and helping survivors everywhere know: they can heal, too.

09/26/2025

Why Healing From Childhood Trauma Feels So Important and Difficult?

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) — things like abuse, neglect, or growing up in a home with chaos — don’t just stay in childhood.

They shape how you think, feel, and even how your body reacts to stress for years.

So why is it so hard to face the emotional impact of ACEs?

Your nervous system was wired for survival.
As a child, you learned to stay hyper-alert, shut down, or go numb. Those patterns often follow you into adulthood.

Trauma lives in the body.
Even if your mind “doesn’t remember,” your body does. A smell, a tone of voice, or a silence can bring up overwhelming feelings instantly.

Shame & self-blame.
Kids often believe: “If this is happening, it must be my fault.” That belief can stick for decades.

Protective walls.
The defenses that kept you safe as a child can later block you from connecting—with your own emotions, and with others.

The inner critic.
If a parent was critical or perfectionistic, their voice may still live inside you, judging you harshly today.

The body remembers.
The ACE Study proved unresolved trauma is linked to depression, addiction, illness, even shorter life expectancy.

Fear of facing it.
Many people worry that revisiting childhood pain will break them. In truth, safe and guided healing means releasing it—not reliving it.

Healing is possible at any age.

With the right tools—compassion, safe support, and structured practices—you can retrain your nervous system, release old emotional memories, and finally feel safe inside yourself.

This is the work I’ve dedicated my life to with Dr. Vincent Felitti, co-founder of the ACE Study.

Together, through True Sage and the enlightn app, we’re helping people heal at the root—emotionally, mentally, and physically.

If this resonates with you—or if you know someone carrying the weight of ACEs—please share this message. Healing is real. Healing works. Healing brings freedom.

09/25/2025

The Loudest Voice in Your Life Might Not Be You — Here’s How to Change That!

Facing the Inner Critic: From Harsh Judge to Inner Coach

We all know that voice inside our head — the inner critic.

👉 “You’re not good enough.”
👉 “You should have done better.”
👉 “Don’t mess this up.”

But here’s the truth: that voice didn’t just appear.

Many times, it was trained in childhood.

If you grew up with a parent who was critical, perfectionistic, or focused more on mistakes than strengths… that inner critic may have taken root in you.

Over time it becomes the voice that:
⚡ fuels anxiety and self-doubt
⚡ drives achievement but steals peace of mind
⚡ creates stress and strains relationships

💡 Here’s the great news:
Your inner critic is NOT your destiny.

With awareness, acceptance, letting go, (may include criticizing the critic!) self-compassion, and the proven tools, you can release that voice — turning it from a harsh judge into an inner coach that motivates, encourages, and supports you.

This has been my life’s work since co-creating breakthrough solutions during and after the ACE Study with Vincent Felitti, MD

✨ Helping individuals free themselves from self-criticism
✨ Helping families, leaders and companies transform culture with counter-intuitive and positive self-care resulting in wellbeing for inner resilience

Your possible next step:
🔹 Individuals: Explore self-care programs at DrBrianAlman.com
🔹 Coaches & Companies: Bringing trauma-informed, evidence-based tools into your organization at TrueSage.com
🔹 All Ages: enlightn.me and the True Sage Oracle Cards

Want to learn more? Check out my recent conversation on the Health Coach Nation Podcast

📚 Books to help evolve the inner critic to your inner voice:
👧 Ages 5–15: Less Stress for Kids
👩‍🎓 Ages 16–22: Your Inner Voice
👨‍💼 Ages 23+: Less Stress Now
🌍 All Ages: True Sage Oracle Cards

Have you noticed your inner critic showing up more often than you’d like? Share below ⬇️

09/24/2025

Thank you Hailey for the inspirational podcast with you today!

All of the people in the world and their inner critics will benefit immensely.

Please keep in touch,
Dr. Brian Alman

09/24/2025

High Performers with ACEs: Healing Is Possible

Many of the most successful people you know — executives, leaders, athletes, entrepreneurs — have lived through Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) like abuse, neglect, or household dysfunction.

✨ On the outside, they shine.
💭 On the inside, the pressure, anxiety, or hidden stress can feel overwhelming.

🎥Look for the podcast from the Health Revival Show with Liz and Becca on this topic next week.

The landmark ACE Study, co-led by Dr. Vincent Felitti at Kaiser Permanente, proved what so many have felt: childhood trauma leaves lasting marks on body, mind, and spirit.

And in decades of clinical practice, Dr. Felitti and I (Dr. Brian Alman) saw it again and again:
✅ High achievers often push harder to succeed, but carry unresolved emotional burdens.
✅ Success doesn’t erase the impact of early trauma.
✅ Left unaddressed, these hidden wounds can lead to burnout, health issues, or relationship struggles.

💡 The hopeful truth: healing works. Healing transforms. And healing can unlock even greater potential.

That’s why we created the True Sage + enlightn™ app — a safe, guided, research-based path for people who want to thrive without the weight of the past:

Number 1: Discover your personal Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Score and Category + stress profile.

Number 2: Discover your personal Positive Childhood Experiences (PCE) Score and Category + wellbeing profile.

Number 3: Receive individualized solutions to get to the root cause of your problems.

Number 4.: Learn exact ways to utilize your problems and turn them into resources.

✔️ Learn guided practices from decades of Kaiser Permanente research
✔️ Process emotional memories safely and effectively
✔️ Build inner resilience into your daily routine — without slowing down your goals

👉 If you’re a high performer who grew up with ACEs, know this:
Your past does not have to define your future.

Patented technologies:
🌐 www.TrueSage.com
🌐 www.enlightn.me

09/24/2025

09/23/2025

The Success of Healing Trauma

For decades, the ACE Study has shown us a hard truth:

Childhood adversity — abuse, neglect, or household dysfunction — leaves lasting marks on body and mind.

Add adult stress and unresolved emotional memories, and the weight can feel overwhelming.

But here’s what matters most:
Healing is real.
Healing works.
Healing brings success.

✔ Processing internalized stress and emotional memories leads to breakthroughs — not just in mental health, but in physical well-being, relationships, and even careers.

✔ When resilience practices become daily habits, people don’t erase their past… they transform their relationship to it.

✔ Trauma recovery isn’t just survival — it’s the foundation for thriving.

Dr. Vincent Felitti (co-lead of the ACE Study) and Dr. Brian Alman (ACE Solution Director) have spent decades proving that with the right tools, people can heal — at any age.

That’s why we created:
🌐 True Sage + enlightn.me
🔹 Discover your ACE + PCE + stress profile
🔹 Gain personalized strategies for resilience
🔹 Learn practices to heal & grow

👉 The success of trauma healing is seen in families reconnecting.
It’s felt in stronger communities.
It’s lived in every person who learns: your past does not have to define your future.

Patented Technologies
🌐 www.TrueSage.com
🌐 www.enlightn.me

09/22/2025

“The Most Powerful Pharmacy In The World Is In Between Your Ears” Dr. Brian Alman

“Your past does not have to be your destiny. Your ACE Score may outline your past, but it doesn’t dictate your future”
Vincent J. Felitti, MD.

“We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained”
Marie Curie

“Trust your unconscious; it knows more than you do.” Milton H. Erickson, MD

“Life is not the way it’s supposed to be, it’s the way it is. The way you cope with that is what makes the difference” Virginia Satir

There are approximately 100 billion neurons in your brain.

The human brain consists of 100 billion neurons and over 100 trillion synaptic connections.

There are more neurons in a single human brain than stars in the Milky Way!

MEDICINE & HEALTH from Science Times.

https://lnkd.in/gZcK5kSQ 46525/20231014/largest-map-human-brain-reveals-3-300-new-cell-types.htma

“It’s really the connections -how these cells are talking to each other - that makes us different from the chimpanzees” according to neuroscientists.

Improve your brain power with TrueSage.com and the new mental Health-ACE-PCE-well-being app, enlightn.me.

09/22/2025

Awareness is powerful and healing with positive action transforms lives.

Healing After ACEs: Your Roadmap to Inner Resilience

Your childhood experiences—especially Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)—can shape your health and wellbeing. But here’s the empowering truth: your past does not define your future.

Your Roadmap:
1️⃣ Recognize & Understand – Explore safely with the enlightn.me app from TrueSage.com 🧠
2️⃣ Seek Support – Trauma-informed therapists and supportive communities 🤝
3️⃣ Grow Resilience – Strong relationships, mindfulness, creativity, and healthy routines 🌱
4️⃣ Honor Your Body – Gentle exercise, breathwork, and restorative sleep 🏃‍♀️
5️⃣ Use Science & Tools – Guided by Dr. Vincent Felitti & Dr. Brian Alman, enlightn.me helps you take practical steps 📱
6️⃣ Celebrate Every Step – Every win counts 🎉

💡 Remember: ACEs may shape you, but they cannot limit your potential. Healing is possible at any age.

Connect or DM for assistance with joining free workshops, webinars, videos and assessments.

🌐 Start your journey: www.TrueSage.com | www.enlightn.me

09/21/2025

The Science Is Clear: Healing Is Possible at Any Age

Your Past Does Not Have to Define Your Future ✨

When Dr. Vincent Felitti first uncovered the link between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and long-term health, the world was stunned.

One of his patients, after taking the ACE questionnaire, shared:

I never realized my childhood pain was still shaping my health and happiness — until now.

Dr. Brian Alman has continued their work, bringing healing tools to people everywhere.

A woman who had survived childhood abuse recently told him:

For the first time in my adult life, I finally feel safe inside myself.

These stories matter because even 1–2 significant ACEs (like sexual or emotional abuse) can impact your health, relationships, and peace of mind.

But healing is possible, and there’s a proven roadmap:

The Healing Roadmap

• Take the ACE & Positive Childhood Experience (PCE) questionnaires → discover both your struggles and your strengths.

• Learn from Dr. Felitti and Dr. Alman through guided videos on trauma categories like sexual and emotional abuse.

• Use the Pause Tool whenever emotions feel overwhelming.

• Build resilience with journaling and the Less Stress Now training — always at your own pace.

• When ready, go deeper with the Six Steps to Freedom program for lasting change.

Through TrueSage.com and the enlightn App, these tools are now available anytime, anywhere — bringing hope and healing within reach for anyone who needs it.

Remember: Your ACE score is not your destiny. Healing is possible. Growth is possible. A brighter future is possible.

Take one step today. Your future self will thank you.

09/20/2025

The ACE Breakthrough That’s Changing Lives ✨

Did you know your unresolved adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)—and even adult traumas—can shape your:
💔 Health
💔 Happiness
💔 Relationships
💔 Even your lifespan

Over 30 years ago, Dr. Vincent Felitti’s ACE Study shook the medical world 🌍 by proving that childhood trauma is one of the strongest predictors of health problems in adulthood.

Since then, Dr. Felitti and I (Dr. Brian Alman) have worked together every single week for three decades—turning that discovery into practical healing tools that help people not just cope, but truly transform.

💡 And the results?
✨ Parents breaking cycles of trauma
✨ Patients healing from addiction, burnout & chronic illness
✨ Families reconnecting & thriving again
✨ Healthcare pros finally treating the root cause instead of symptoms

Now, for the first time ever, these same solutions are available to everyone—through professional training, personal coaching, and the enlightn app 📲.

🎥 Want to hear from Dr. Felitti himself?
👉 https://vimeo.com/675717401

🌱 Imagine healing instead of just surviving.
🌱 Imagine your family breaking free from generational stress.
🌱 Imagine a healthier, more resilient YOU.

That’s the ACE Solution. And it’s changing lives. 💙

📩 DM me to connect with Dr. Felitti and me personally. Together, we can make healing not just possible, but transformational.

🔥 Question for you:
👉 What happens if you do—or don’t—face your own ACEs?

Take the ACE questions today for yourself and your loved ones. Learn how resilience can shift your health, your relationships, and your future.

09/20/2025

Laughter is the soul’s music.

True Sage Oracle Cards by Dr. Brian Alman with Paintings by Kevin Anderson

Life feels lighter when we let ourselves laugh.

It’s more than just fun—it’s medicine for the heart and soul.

Why laughter matters:
🌟 Relieves stress + tension
🌟 Sparks childlike joy + playfulness
🌟 Deepens bonds with others
🌟 Builds resilience + fresh perspective

Try this playful exercise:

Speak in Gibberish!

Yes, really.

Just 1 minute of silly sounds can calm your mind, break negative loops, and get you smiling again. 🎶😄

Read this out loud:
“frickalalamuchikananees”
(3 times!!!)

Embrace laughter.
It heals, connects, and transforms.

When was the last time you laughed until your cheeks hurt? 💕