Dr Gabor Mate: How Stress Is Making Us Sick
A Life of Greatness
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Trauma Is Not What Happens to You
" trauma is what happens inside of us and whatever is nice what happens inside me is unconsciously but inevitably i conclude that i'm being abandoned," he says. "Seven years later when this woman on who i'm relying for support and connection doesn't show up to pick me up at the airport i react exactly like a baby." He continues: "That's the old wound yes that's still stamping my brain and i'm reacting as if i'm still that abandoned child which is what my friend Peter Levine calls the tyranny of the past"
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