03/19/2026
Today We Have More Power to Put Childhood Trauma Science – ACEs Science – Into the Hands of Leaders Who Can Change the Systems Causing It. Order your copies of “Greater than Gravity” today. Boosting sales = raising awareness!
Carey Sipp Carey Sipp 3 hours ago
A new book launching today — March 19, 2026 — may be the most powerful tool yet for moving the science of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) from the margins to the mainstream.
We — the 62,385 members of PACEs Connection— have the collective power to make sure it gets there. If we act now, and purchase the book today to help it get to the New York Times Best Seller List, where it will gain the attention it deserves, to help the author get on those all-important talk shows to tell our collective stories, finally make ACES Science a household term.
I hope you will help!
The book is Greater Than Gravity: How Childhood Trauma Is Pulling Down Humanity by Mike Menard. Please boost our cause buying it today at www.Amazon.com/dp/1968559019.
Why today?
Amazon's algorithms reward early sales velocity. A book that sells in high volume on launch day gets seen by millions. One that doesn't disappears. With our 62,385 members across more than 500 geographic, national, international, and sector-specific communities, PACEs Connection has the reach to help push this book onto bestseller lists — and into the hands of the policymakers, corporate leaders, educators, healthcare providers, and community leaders who most need to read it.
I've spent more than 20 years trying to explain, elevate, and make memorable and ACTIONABLE the science of ACEs — knowing that if enough people truly understood it, we could reach a tipping point. Greater Than Gravitymay be the book that finally gets us there.
Why This Book
Author Michael Menard is no outside observer. He grew up in abject poverty, one of 14 children, with a father who poured his rage onto his family and a mother who poured her love. He lived both sides of the PACEs equation — the adverse and the positive — and writes about both with the rigor of a researcher and the honesty of someone who has been there.
The result is the book many of us in this field have been waiting for: one that delivers the science, the stories, the footnotes, and the solutions in language that is accessible, compelling, and impossible to set aside.
Here’s my truth about this book:
Greater Than Gravity is affirmation, confirmation, proof about ACEs Science so many of us have been trying to get policymakers, corporate leaders, medical schools, people in justice, education, mental health, and more to grasp and apply for DECADES. Prevention is so much more effective — and so much more cost effective — than treatment. Prevention science prevents pain. Multi-generational pain. Sharing this book can help us raise awareness and, I believe, help more children from experiencing the pain of childhood trauma and neglect.
Why It Matters — and Why Now
Childhood trauma is the upstream root cause of addiction, poverty, violence, poor health, neglect, and so many of our most seemingly intractable social problems. That is not opinion — it is three decades of science, beginning with the landmark 1998 ACEs Study published by Kaiser Permanente and the CDC, and confirmed by thousands of studies since.
What has been missing? We need a tipping point — the moment when enough leaders in enough rooms finally understand the science deeply enough to act on it. To change the systems that cause childhood trauma in the first place.
This book can be that moment. But only if it gets seen.
What You Can Do — Right Now
Buy the book today at www.Amazon.com/dp/1968559019.
Then share this post on LinkedIn, Facebook, or your other social media homes today, using the little icons below, in the line of social media icons. Tag a policymaker, a physician, a teacher, a coach, a faith leader, a corporate executive — anyone with the power to change the systems that shape children's lives.
We have 62,385 members. We have more than 500 communities. We have spent years — many of us, decades — doing this work. Today we have one more tool, and one clear ask. Buy and share this book!
Let's make this the day the science finally reaches the people who can act on it, enough of them to tip this work in our favor to help prevent the next case of domestic violence, child sexual abuse, child abuse, neglect, and harm. WE CAN DO THIS!
Please order copies now to share with friends. I just ordered 11; will be ordering another 10 after I post this! Thanks for your help.
