Dr. Brian Alman

Dr. Brian Alman ACE Treatment Solution, Founder & Clinical Director. Author 14 Books. With Dr. Felitti: enlightn App

What if the most important questions about your health……were never asked?The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study showed:...
04/30/2026

What if the most important questions about your health…

…were never asked?

The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study showed:

Your past can shape your present and future.

After 30+ years of working together with thousands of people…

We learned:

It’s not just what happened.

It’s the patterns that continue.

That’s why we built the enlightn™ app.

Dr. Felitti added 2 questions after receiving feedback from thousands of people that scored zero.

Because they had different traumas.

The 10 ACE Questions was not an exhaustive list of traumas.

But simply the 10 most common traumas experienced by this group of 17,000 Kaiser members and ACE Study participants.

We collaborated on the additional 2 ACE Questions; number 11 & 12.

5 years of study by Dr. Felitti and they are now included in the ACE Assessment.

Connect and receive Dr. Felitti’s complete ACE Assessment.

People don’t quit when things are failing.They quit when things start working.In the 1980s, Dr. Vincent Felitti saw pati...
04/29/2026

People don’t quit when things are failing.

They quit when things start working.

In the 1980s, Dr. Vincent Felitti saw patients dropping out of a weight loss program right as they were succeeding.

Why?

Because the weight had been protecting them.

That discovery became the
Adverse Childhood Experiences Study.

After 30+ years working together…

We learned something most people miss:

It’s not just what’s happening now.

It’s patterns that started long ago—and keep repeating.

That’s why we built the enlightn™ app.

Simple tools.
Real-time change.
Based on decades of experience.

Save this.

Next post: the ACE questions.

mindbody stressrelief enlightn

The exhaustion you feel has a name. It’s called surviving.You’ve been told you’re too sensitive.Too anxious.Too much. Wh...
04/28/2026

The exhaustion you feel has a name. It’s called surviving.

You’ve been told you’re too sensitive.

Too anxious.

Too much.
 
What if you were just never given the context for your own story?
 
ACEs — Adverse Childhood Experiences — shape the nervous system in ways that show up decades later.
 
As exhaustion.

As chronic pain.

As a low hum of anxiety that never fully turns off.
 
This isn’t weakness.

This is adaptation.
 
Yes, adaptation can be updated.
 
enlightn helps you understand your story — and write the next chapter.

 enlightn.me

“For more than 30 years I have had the privilege of working with Dr. Brian Alman and the enlightn approaches exploring how childhood experiences shape adult health and how people can learn practical ways to heal.”
— Vincent J. Felitti, MD

🔗 enlightn.me (link in comments)
 

Most people think their stress is the problem.It’s not.After 30+ years working with Dr. Vincent Felitti and the ACE rese...
04/27/2026

Most people think their stress is the problem.

It’s not.

After 30+ years working with Dr. Vincent Felitti and the ACE research, we saw something surprising…

When people were simply asked about their life experiences—
and actually listened to—

• Doctor visits ↓ 35%
• ER visits ↓ 11%

No medication.
No new treatment.

Just understanding.

If you want to learn from Dr. Felitti about the study (125,000+ people with University of California, San Diego and Kaiser Permanente), it’s in the comments.

What you’re dealing with today
usually didn’t start today.

And what looks like a problem…
was often something that helped you get through something earlier in life.

That’s why we created enlightn.

Not to fix you.

But to help you:

✔ Understand your patterns
✔ See where they started
✔ Change what keeps repeating

It’s not the stress.

It’s how long it stays.

And once you see that…

things start to change.

What looks like the problem…is often protection.* Your patterns have a purpose* Your stress has a storyUnderstand it…and...
04/26/2026

What looks like the problem…
is often protection.

* Your patterns have a purpose
* Your stress has a story

Understand it…
and it can finally change.

04/25/2026

Most mental health solutions focus on just stress.

We don’t.

After more than 30 years working with
Dr. Vincent Felitti and the original ACE research, we found something most systems miss:

👉 It’s not the stress.
👉 It’s how long it stays.

We call this stress persistence.

And it explains why:
• burnout keeps coming back
• weight loss doesn’t last
• anxiety repeats
• performance drops under pressure

Because what looks like today’s problem…

…often started years earlier.

That’s why we built enlightn.

The first platform designed to:

✔ Identify your patterns
✔ Understand where they started
✔ Change them at the root

Not manage just the stress.

Resolve it.

Most mental health solutions try to reduce stress.enlightn does something different.After 30+ years working alongside Vi...
04/25/2026

Most mental health solutions try to reduce stress.

enlightn does something different.

After 30+ years working alongside Vincent Felitti and the ACE research, we discovered something most systems miss:

👉 What looks like the problem… is often protection.

When patients lost significant weight, many didn’t feel relief.

They felt fear.

Because for many:
• The weight created a sense of safety
• The pattern had a purpose
• The stress response was doing a job

So instead of asking:
“How do we fix this?”

We asked:
“What is this doing for you?”

That question changed everything.

When patients were simply asked about their life experiences:

• Doctor visits dropped 35%
• ER visits dropped 11%

No new treatment.
No new medication.

Just understanding.

⸻

That’s the foundation of enlightn.

A different approach to mental health:

✔ Identify your patterns
✔ Understand what they’ve been doing for you
✔ Learn how to change them at the root

Because it’s not just the stress.

👉 It’s how long it stays active.

And when you understand that…

real change finally becomes possible.

04/25/2026

Are You An Expert In Repression?

Suppression?

Self-Judging?

Self-Medicating?

Why Your Stress Keeps Coming Back (And What Most People Miss)

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Most people think the stress they feel today started today.

After more than 30 years working with Vincent Felitti and the ACE research, we’ve seen something very different:

👉 What you’re feeling today often started years earlier
👉 And it keeps repeating… until it’s understood

This is the missing piece in most mental health solutions.

That’s why I created the enlightn app — to help people understand their patterns and actually change them at the root.

If this resonates, you’re in the right place.

Most companies are trying to fix burnout…without ever asking where it started.After more than 30 years working alongside...
04/24/2026

Most companies are trying to fix burnout…

without ever asking where it started.

After more than 30 years working alongside Vincent Felitti and the ACE research, we kept coming back to one question:

Why does it keep coming back?

Here’s what we learned:

For most people…
it didn’t start at work.

It started years earlier.

What we call ACEs — Adverse Childhood Experiences — are early patterns of stress that shape how people handle pressure, relationships, and performance for years.

They don’t just fade.

They show up at work every day.

And that has real consequences:

• Burnout isn’t just workload
• Turnover isn’t just culture
• Healthcare costs aren’t just utilization

They’re often the downstream effect of something deeper.

That’s why I built enlightn.

Not to help people cope with stress…

but to understand it — and change it at the root.

The companies that actually move the needle on mental health won’t be the ones with better perks.

They’ll be the ones willing to look upstream.

* Curious what you’re seeing?
What do you think most companies are still missing?

Most stress doesn’t start today.It started years earlier.After 30+ years working with ACE research, I’ve seen this clear...
04/24/2026

Most stress doesn’t start today.

It started years earlier.

After 30+ years working with ACE research, I’ve seen this clearly:

👉 Your reactions aren’t random
👉 Your patterns aren’t personality
👉 Your stress has a history

And until you understand it…

it keeps repeating.

That’s why I built the enlightn app.

Not to help you cope.

To help you change it.

👇
What’s one pattern you’ve noticed in your life?

04/24/2026

Trauma Healing? ACE Healing? After more than 30 years working with Vincent Felitti and the ACE research, we’ve seen something most people miss:

👉 Two people can go through similar experiences…
and have completely different outcomes.

That’s not random.

It comes down to four things:

• What happened
• When it happened
• How much / how long it lasted
• And whether it was ever fully resolved

⸻

Most people focus on the first three.

But the fourth is where change actually happens.

👉 Is it still active?

⸻

That’s why:

• Reactions aren’t overreactions
• Triggers aren’t random
• Patterns aren’t personality

They’re protection.

⸻

The goal isn’t to compare what happened.

The goal is to understand your pattern
so it doesn’t keep repeating.

⸻

🔻 WHERE TO START (based on what you need)

✔ For individuals:
From Trauma to Enlightenment

✔ For employers / teams:
enlightn app

✔ For daily insight + reflection:
TrueSage Oracle Cards

⸻

👉 What’s one pattern in your life that keeps showing up?

TrueSage Enlightn

Same experience.Different outcome.That’s not random.It comes down to:• Type• Timing• Accumulation• ResolutionMost people...
04/23/2026

Same experience.
Different outcome.

That’s not random.

It comes down to:

• Type
• Timing
• Accumulation
• Resolution

Most people try to manage stress.

Very few ask:

👉 Why does it keep coming back?

It’s not just what happened.

It’s what’s still active.

🔻 START WHERE YOU ARE

📖 Book: From Trauma to Enlightenment
📱 App: enlightn
🧠 Tools: TrueSage Oracle Cards

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