How to Find Healing From Trauma with Dr. Gabor Mate

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Gabor Maté is a highly sought expert on a wide range of topics such as addiction, stress, and childhood development. He has written many books, of which several are best-sellers, including the award-winning “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts” , “Close Encounters with Addiction”, and “When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Culture.” Gabor’s work has been published internationally and in more than 30 languages.

In this episode, Eric and Dr. Maté discuss his book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

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Dr. Gabor Mate and I Discuss How to …

His book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
Defining the myths of normal
How the increasing anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues are a result of toxic culture
Stress and trauma can begin for a child in utero, at childbirth, and throughout childhood
The modern stresses of our world contributes to a toxic culture
How parents pass down their traumas to their children
Defining trauma as a psychic wound that happens inside of you
The healing process is the recovery of self
Understanding the clash between attachment and authenticity
How emotions and immune systems are part of the same system
The importance of understanding the important link between emotions and physical health
Trauma imposed self beliefs are the main obstacles of healing
Remembering that healing is a lifelong process
The 4 A’s of healing: authenticity, agency, acceptance, and anger (healthy)

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0:00.0	Responsibility if you break down the word, response ability.
0:04.4	Nobody else can respond to your circumstance about you.
0:07.4	Nobody else can respond to the imprints that you carry,
0:10.4	but you, your response able, but you're not at fault.
0:22.2	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:24.2	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:28.8	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:34.2	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:38.6	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:43.2	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:46.2	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:49.6	But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.
0:53.2	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
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