ACE Emotional Intelligence

ACE Emotional Intelligence is a trauma-informed educational guide that explores how Adverse Childhood Experiences can shape emotional awareness, communication, relationships, boundaries, and the ways we respond when we feel unsafe or overwhelmed.

Rather than treating emotional responses as personal failures, this guide helps you understand them within the context of lived experience. Through accessible education and reflective exercises, you will learn to recognize emotions as information, identify the needs beneath them, communicate more clearly, and develop practical skills for emotional regulation.

ACE Emotional Intelligence invites you to become a conscious regulator of your emotions without suppressing, shaming, or being controlled by them. It supports greater self-awareness, accountability, voice, choice, and empowerment while strengthening your ability to connect with and care for others.

Because emotional justice is a foundation for social justice, learning to understand our own emotions can help us interrupt harm, build healthier relationships, and create more compassionate families, communities, and systems of care.

Written by Washington State Peer Support Specialist and healing justice advocate Jodie L. Knowles, ACE Emotional Intelligence shares notes from lessons learned through lived experience, recovery, advocacy and navigating systems that lack care. so you don’t become a learning curve.

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