Finding The Path to Freedom with Dr. Gabor Mate
The Sakara Life Podcast
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The Need for Emotional Freedom in Children
Children have this need. It's a development. We need to be able to experience all their emotions. Not just human children, all animals. The parents have a circuit in their brains for caring. Without that, we wouldn't survive,. If the infant doesn't receive the care or the parent, there's no life. Those children are traumatized not because terrible things happen to them, but because they didn't have the freedom to be themselves. And we don't have thefreedom to be ourselves. Since we need the attachment relationship with our parents more than anything else, we're going to suppress ourselves to be acceptable to our parents. In suppressing ourselves, we lose connection to ourselves, which
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