Practice You
On resilience through harrowing childhood assault, sharing pain as a service to others and the medicine of the story.
CLEAR ALL
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Our political and social systems don't support fundamental human needs, says Gabor Mate—which affects our ability to deal with traumatic events.
Dr Gabor Maté is a renowned expert in addiction, childhood trauma and mind-body health.
A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding and Healing Shared Trauma What can you do when you carry scars not on your body, but within your soul? And what happens when those spiritual wounds exist not just in you, but in everyone in your family, community, and even beyond? Spiritual teacher Thomas...
In this culmination of his life’s work, Peter A. Levine draws on his broad experience as a clinician, a student of comparative brain research, a stress scientist and a keen observer of the naturalistic animal world to explain the nature and transformation of trauma in the body, brain and psyche.
Most genetic studies completely ignore the science of epigenetics, which is how the environment actually turns certain genes on or off.
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Dr Gabor Maté explains how he believes that most mental health disorders—including Anxiety and Panic Attacks—originate in childhood experience as coping mechanisms. He also explains how revisiting the real cause of the problem can help you overcome it.
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The Fix Q&A with Dr. Gabor Maté on addiction, the holocaust, the “disease-prone personality” and the pathology of positive thinking.
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What if we replaced the word "addict" with: “A human being who suffered so much that he or she finds in drugs or some other behavior a temporary escape from that suffering"?
Opening up to past trauma is difficult, but self-awareness is key to addressing issues that leave us vulnerable.