Financial stress on the parents translates into physiological stress in the children.

They didn't inherit anything in terms of a disease. They're just reacting to the environment.

People call Dr. Gavol Monte the People Whisper. Legendary thinker and best-selling author. People whisper.

Legendary Thinker and Best Selling Author.

He's highly sought after for his expertise on addiction,

stress and childhood development.

The evidence linking mental illness and childhood diversity is about as strong as

the evidence linking smoking and lung cancer and the average physician doesn't

hear a word about that it's astonishing. I can give you the example of Donald Trump I mean his father was a sacrifice

You are the enemy of the people go ahead for him these were not choices so much as survival techniques and that's the mark of a traumatized child a denial of reality.

What do I have to understand about your earliest years to understand you?

My grandparents were killed in Auschwitz and my mother and I barely survived and then my mother to save my life gives me to a stranger.

The sense I guess that I'm being rejected and abandoned because I'm not good enough.

How did that rear its ugly head throughout your life?

Any number of ways.

See, trauma, as I define it, is not about what happens to us.

It's about what happens inside of us as a result of what happens to us.

It's costing us in terms of our physical health,

a relationship, our mental health and so on. How does one go about correcting that? It's a

multi-layered answer. First of all. Without further ado, I'm Stephen Butler and this is the diary of a CEO.

I hope nobody's listening, but if you are, then please keep this yourself.

My dear little man, only after many long months do I take it in hand the pen, so that I may briefly sketch for you the unspeakable horrors of those times, the details mother wrote into her diary in the

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