Welcome everyone. This is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we have quite the pedagreed physician to join us and talk about his life's work.

That is Dr. James Gordon. He's a Harvard educated psychologist, a physician

MD, and he uses self-care and group support to help heal populations that are particularly afflicted with

psychological trauma and we're going to go into some of those specific

strategies. It's really quite intriguing. He's founder and executive director of the nonprofit

center for Mind, Body Medicine in Washington, D.C. And he's a clinical professor at Georgetown Medical School,

and President Bill Clinton actually appointed him chairman of the Advisory Council

to the National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine.

So he's really, as I said, has quite the pedigree and his major passion is in helping people resolve really severe psychological trauma

and not only in our country but internationally he's going to discuss some of that.

So welcome and thank you for joining this, Dr. Gordon.

Thank you very much.

It's great to be here with you.

So the reason we have you on is you've written a new book

called The Transformation, I believe that essentially documents much of the work that you're doing and describes the process that you're engaging with an incredible relief again from so many people.

So do you want to discuss your journey on that and why you started, where you wrote the book?

Sure, I'm very happy to do it.

A book, I didn't have a picture of it, I have a book here called The Transformation Discovering

Wholeness and Healing After Trauma.

And the basic idea of the book and of the work I've been doing now for

50 years is really that all of us have the capacity to understand and help ourselves and we have far greater capacity than

we ordinarily understand and that when trauma comes to us and trauma is a Greek

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