Ep. 217 – Real Life Series with Dr. Gabor Maté

Metta Hour with Sharon Salzberg

Be Here Now Network

Beherenow, Religion & Spirituality, Beherenownetwork, Buddhism, Meditation, Society & Culture, Sharonsalzberg, Metta, Salzberg, Compassion

4.6 • 682 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

For episode 217 of the Metta Hour Podcast, we are continuing the Real Life Series celebrating Sharon’s new book by the same name, “Real Life.” This interview features a conversation between Sharon and Dr. Gabor Maté about states of contraction and how that relates to addiction. Recorded for the Living An Authentic Life Summit.

Gabor Maté is a renowned speaker and bestselling author. After 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience, Gabor worked for over a decade in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side with patients challenged by drug addiction and mental illness. The bestselling author of four books published in over thirty languages, Gabor is sought after for his expertise on addiction, trauma, childhood development, and the relationship between stress and illness. His latest book, released in 2022, is titled the Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture.

In this conversation, Gabor and Sharon speak about states of contraction and how that relates to addiction.

To learn more about Gabor’s work, visit his website at drgabormate.com.

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0:00.0	To be enlightened is to be intimate with all things, Dogan Zenji.
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1:06.4	visit romdos.org forward slash today intimacy.
1:19.0	I was giving me a public talk and man stood up and said,
1:23.2	how do I not feel guilt about the way I pass my trauma onto my kids,
1:29.8	which incidentally we all do until we figure it out? And I asked him, when in your life have you not felt guilty?
1:36.7	He said, never. In other words, the guilt predated anything he ever did. And the guilt actually began, when you analyze it, because his parents were not happy,
1:49.0	and he thought that was his fault when he was two years old.
1:53.0	So at that point, you decide I'm just not worthy.
1:57.0	And then you do anything wrong that feeds that sense of unworthiness, but what you did it wrong didn't cause the unworthiness.
2:05.1	The unworthiness came first.
2:07.3	Otherwise, it would just be held their remorse. Hello, hello, and welcome to the Metto Hour podcast with Sharon Salzberg.
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