Dr. Gabor Mate´ - Re-Release
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week we talk to Dr. Gabor Mate´ about addiction
A renowned speaker, and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress and childhood development.
For twelve years Dr. Maté worked in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside with patients challenged by hard-core drug addiction, mental illness and HIV, including at Vancouver’s Supervised Injection Site.
As an author, Dr. Maté has written several bestselling books including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction; When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress; and Scattered Minds: A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder, and co-authored Hold on to Your Kids. His works have been published internationally in twenty languages.
Dr. Maté is the co-founder of Compassion for Addiction, a new non-profit that focusses on addiction. He is also an advisor of Drugs over Dinner.
Dr. Maté has received the Hubert Evans Prize for Literary Non-Fiction; an Honorary Degree (Law) from the University of Northern British Columbia; an Outstanding Alumnus Award from Simon Fraser University; and the 2012 Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award from Mothers Against Teen Violence. He is an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Criminology, Simon Fraser University.
In This Interview, Dr. Gabor Mate´ and I Discuss...
- The One You Feed parable
- The degree of choice we have in life
- What is the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts?
- What is addiction?
- The characteristics of addiction
- Recognizing what addicts get out of their addiction
- The fundamental question is not “Why the Addiction” but “Why the Pain”
- How all addiction comes out of some hurt or trauma
- The different types of trauma
- The role of neurotransmitters in addiction
- How drugs and alcohol destroy the parts of the brain that allow us to make sound decisions
- Whether or not genetics play a significant role in addiction
- Whether our culture breeds addiction
- How our children get most of their leadership from other children
- How the breakup of family, community and clan is contributing to addiction
- The critical role of the culture in our the development of our brains
- Recognizing our inherent value
- To what degree we have freedom over our choices
- Without consciousness, there is no freedom
- Paths to recovery
- How compassion can help with recovery
- Developing compassionate curiosity towards ourselves
Dr. Gabor Mate´ Links
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, it's Chris here. Oh, that's my dog Penny barking in the background. We'll just leave that in. |
| 0:07.4 | Wanted to let you know that I got married this Sunday and Eric officiated my wedding. So because of |
| 0:14.4 | that and all the craziness and time involved, we are doing one more re-release of a interview with |
| 0:20.4 | Gavormate. So enjoy and we will be back on track next weekend with a new interview. And if you |
| 0:28.0 | haven't heard this interview with Gavormate, you definitely want to listen to it because he's |
| 0:32.8 | a really amazing guy. So thanks everybody and we will talk to you soon. Bye. You cannot separate |
| 0:39.1 | the individual from the environment and you cannot separate the mind from the body. And so when |
| 0:42.8 | people are living in a stressed culture, they have stressed minds and stressed minds resulting |
| 0:47.6 | stressed bodies. Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the |
| 1:01.4 | importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, |
| 1:07.8 | ring true. And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward |
| 1:14.0 | negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 1:20.8 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. |
| 1:26.3 | Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 1:32.6 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. How they feed |
| 1:38.0 | their good wolf. |
| 1:51.6 | Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is a renowned speaker and best-selling author, |
| 1:56.6 | Dr. Gabor Mate. He's highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including |
| 2:02.0 | addiction, stress, and childhood development. For 12 years Dr. Mate worked in VanCoovers downtown |
| 2:07.6 | Eastside with patients challenged by hardcore drug addiction, mental illness, and HIV, |
| 2:13.1 | including VanCoovers supervised injection site. As an author, Dr. Mate has written several best |
| 2:19.0 | selling books, including the award-winning in the realm of the hungry ghosts, close encounters with |
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