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How to Find Healing From Trauma with Dr. Gabor Mate

The One You Feed

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Addiction - An Escape From the Alienated Self

All addictions can be summed up as an escape from the confines of the self, by which I mean the mundane lived in experience of being uncomfortable and isolated in one skin. So it's ironic that we're recovering ourselves, but part of so much of what addiction is just trying to escape that self. Addition is trying to not to escape from the true self. It's actually trying to get a taste of the real self.

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