Introduction

My guest today is a long-awaited one, the brilliant Dr. Gabor Maté. A renowned speaker and bestselling author. Dr. Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics, including addiction, stress, and childhood development. 

We showcase his latest book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture, and the many overlapping layers involved in the wellness/illness/trauma matrix. 

The subjects at hand – addiction, trauma, and recovery – are near and dear to my own experience and development as a person. As such, we go deep in this one, perhaps a little too deep for my comfort, personally. But in the end, I think the value to you, the listener, will make any vulnerability I endured worth every minute of it.

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00:10:09 — Dr. Maté’s Latest Book: The Myth of Normal

• The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture
• Drawing lines between individual experience and cultural impact 
• Lakota wisdom from Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona
• Great Balls Of Fire! by Jerry Lee Lewis (1957)

00:22:22 — The Role Trauma Plays in Addiction

• Defining addition and trauma
• Framing addiction as a solution to a problem 
• Framing trauma as a wound
• Fleeing Nazi occupation in 1944
• How childhood trauma scars over
• Unpacking Luke’s experience with sexual abuse
• Into the Magic Shop by James R. Doty MD

00:57:59 — Healing Through the Judicious Use of Psychedelics 

• Luke’s experience reliving his abuse during ceremony
• What is a trigger vs. the ammunition behind it?
• Granting ourselves grace 
• A case of ayawaska recovery from Dr. Maté’s book
• Bill Wilson’s experiments with LSD
• The importance of set and setting  
• How To Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
• Acknowledging the access/privilege factor 
• Dosed (2019)

01:34:05 — Gratitude for the Process of Recovery

• Humans as being naturally kind and nurturing vs. hostile
• Finding your true nature
• Talk therapy (make it trauma-informed)
• The story of Eve Ensler
• Internal Family Systems practice
• Compassionate Inquiry practice 
• Wisdom of Trauma (2021)
• EMDR practice
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, MD
• What Happened to You? by Oprah Winfrey
• The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture
• Appreciating the work of A.H. Almaas
• IntraConnected by Daniel J. Siegel, MD
• Appreciating with work of Bessel van der Kolk, MD
• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

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• The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture
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