ACL Global Project

We’re often hardest on the very patterns that once helped us cope. Perfectionism. People-pleasing. Withdrawing. Staying endlessly busy.

Before calling one of them a flaw, try a different question: what has this been doing for me? Perfectionism can guard against criticism. Pleasing can protect a bond. Withdrawing can ease overload. Each one made sense, once.

Understanding a pattern doesn’t mean it gets to keep running the show. But it changes the question. Instead of “What’s wrong with me?” we can ask, “What was this protecting? Is there a kinder way to meet that need now?”

Which of your patterns makes more sense when you ask what it’s protecting? What might help it relax its grip?

Learn more at livewithacl.org

Every year, our Awareness, Courage & Love Global community is amazed by what people are willing to share.

This November, as we gather to celebrate our founder Dr. Mavis Tsai’s 72nd birthday and support the ACL Global Project—we’re inviting you to be part of our silent auction.

What would bring you joy to share with our community?

A coaching or therapy session.
A workshop.
A creative experience.
A chance to teach something you love.

Last year, contributions like these helped fund leadership scholarships and strengthen a community connecting people across six continents.

If you have something meaningful you can offer online, we’d love to include it—and help introduce your work to people around the world who care deeply about human connection.

Please submit your offering by October 17.

🔗 https://bit.ly/AuctionItemSubmissionForm-Mavis72nd

Each offering will be reviewed and confirmed to make sure it’s a good fit for our community celebration.

We'd love to celebrate with you too--stay tuned for the link to join us on November 14."



Mavis Tsai Holly Lelling Yates Manuela O'Connell Educanima Psicología Jesús Ruelas Faby García Sandra Lis Mendoza - Psicóloga

Some places in our lives are forever out of reach — a childhood home, a city street, a lost love, a time when life felt simpler. We can never return. And yet those spaces still live within us, quietly shaping who we've become.

This Sunday, join Dr. Eugen Secara and Dr. Mavis Tsai for a live experiential gathering: Echoes of Places Lost: Finding Yourself in Spaces You Will Never Never Visit Again.

Together, we'll revisit the places we carry inside us — not to grieve what's gone, but to understand how they shaped us, and what they continue to teach us even in their absence.

📅 Sunday, Sep 13 | 🕐 10:00–11:30am PST | Zoom Livestream

🌍 Live Spanish & Portuguese translation. Captions in 50+ languages.

What might a place you can never return to still be trying to tell you?

🔗 RSVP → https://bit.ly/EchoesofPlacesLost



Mavis Tsai Holly Lelling Yates Manuela O'Connell Sandra Lis Mendoza - Psicóloga Stavroula Sanida Jesús Ruelas

We all wear masks — a version of ourselves for work, another for family, another for friends. Some of these masks protect us. Some, over time, quietly cost us.

It can help to name the roles you play and the mask each one asks you to wear. What do you emphasize? What do you hide? And what might it feel like to set one of those masks down, even a little?

Removing a mask rarely happens overnight.

It asks for self-awareness, courage, and patience with yourself.

But each step toward being seen as you truly are can open the door to more genuine connection.

Which mask do you wear most often — and what would change if you loosened it?

Learn more at livewithacl.org



Mavis Tsai Holly Lelling Yates Manuela O'Connell Educanima Psicología Jesús Ruelas Sandra Lis Mendoza - Psicóloga Faby García

What does it mean to come home to yourself?

Trauma can shape how we see ourselves, how we relate to others, and what we believe is safe to feel or reveal. Healing may begin when we can meet our own experience with awareness and courage—and encounter love and acceptance in our relationships with others.

In her interview, “Coming Home to Yourself: Healing Trauma Through Connection,” our founder Dr. Mavis Tsai shares how authentic connection can help us reclaim parts of ourselves that fear, shame, or painful experiences have pushed into hiding.

Join Mavis and more than 40 other speakers for the complimentary Trauma, Addiction & Relationship Recovery Summit, August 31–September 4.

Register here: https://summits.essential-mastery.com/mats

Health

We come home to ourselves through relationships that are nourishing.

Trauma can distance us from parts of ourselves and make it difficult to trust that it is safe to be fully known. We need relationships in which we are deeply seen, accepted, and supported to reclaim what fear, shame, or painful experiences have pushed into hiding.

In her interview, “Coming Home to Yourself: Healing Trauma Through Connection,” our founder Dr. Mavis Tsai explores how authentic connection helps us feel safer being fully ourselves—and less alone with what we carry.

Join Mavis and more than 40 other speakers for the complimentary Trauma, Addiction & Relationship Recovery Summit, August 31–September 4.

Register here: https://summits.essential-mastery.com/mats

Health

Trauma can leave us feeling far from ourselves—and unsure whether it is safe to be fully known by others.

Yet healing does not happen only within us. It needs to happen between us, through relationships where we feel seen, understood, and valued.

Our founder Dr. Mavis Tsai will explore this relational path to healing in her interview, "Coming Home to Yourself: Healing Trauma Through Connection"

The conversation is part of the complimentary Trauma, Addiction & Relationship Recovery Summit, hosted by Marcia Diane and featuring more than 40 speakers.

The summit takes place August 31–September 4. We hope you’ll join us.

Register free: https://summits.essential-mastery.com/mats