The Underlying Cause of Addiction and The Key to Healing with Dr. Gabor Maté

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Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox and Big Bold Health. On today’s mini-episode, Dhru sits down with Dr. Gabor Maté to talk about detangling our traumatic life experiences to live more aware lives. They also talk about what is happening in the addict’s brain and how to unravel awareness to promote healing. In his famously insightful way, Dr. Maté discusses the true meaning of recovery and how we can all work through trauma to find our truest selves. Dr. Maté is a renowned speaker and is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics, including addiction, stress, and childhood development. Dr. Maté has written several bestselling books, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, When the Body Says No and Scattered, and has coauthored Hold On to Your Kids. His latest book, The Myth of Normal was just released. Gabor is also a codeveloper of a therapeutic approach, Compassionate Inquiry, now studied by hundreds of therapists, physicians, counselors, and others internationally. In this episode we dive into: -How a painful experience or trauma is at the center of all addictions -Understanding the difference between responsibility and blame and why “it’s not all our parents’ fault” -What is happening physiologically in the brains of addicted people -The key to healing painful experiences Listen to the full episode here. For more on Dr. Maté, follow him on Instagram @gabormatemd, Facebook @drgabormate, Twitter @drgabormate, YouTube @drgabormate, and through his website, drgabormate.com. Get his book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture, here. For more on Dhru Purohit, follow him on Instagram @dhrupurohit, Facebook @dhruxpurohit, YouTube @dhrupurohit,Text Dhru at 302-200-5643. ButcherBox has a variety of different boxes, and you can choose your box and frequency. For a limited time, you can sign up today and get two pounds of ground beef free for a whole year PLUS $10 off by going to https://www.butcherbox.com/dhru Right now, Big Bold Health is offering my listeners $20 off all of their products. Just go to https://www.bigboldhealth.com/product/dhru-purohit/ to get all of their products for $20 off with code DHRU20. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, Drew Pro here.
0:02.7	Today with another mini episode for you
0:04.6	with Dr. Gabor Mate.
0:07.0	And on today's mini episode,
0:08.4	we're talking all things addiction and trauma and pain.
0:13.8	You know, anybody that's suffering from any type of addiction,
0:17.8	not just things like alcoholism or drugs,
0:22.3	we can talk about people having a shopping addiction.
0:25.5	We can have people having an addiction to people pleasing.
0:30.0	Dr. Gabor asks an important question.
0:33.3	He asks, don't ask why the addiction, ask why the pain.
0:39.5	Addictions are used to cover pain up in our life.
0:42.7	And once you understand this,
0:44.1	you have a whole different approach
0:45.8	to the negative patterns and addictions that we have in our life,
0:48.9	not just for others, but for ourselves too.
0:50.8	So on today's mini episode, Dr. Mate is going to be talking about
0:54.1	how painful experiences or trauma
0:56.4	are at the center of all addictions.
0:58.4	He's also going to be talking about understanding the difference
1:00.9	between responsibility and blame
1:03.1	and why it's not all our parents fault, so to speak.
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