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459: How to understand & heal your trauma | Gabor Maté, M.D.

The mindbodygreen Podcast

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The Myth of Normal in Childhood Trauma

There's a spectrum of trauma, big tea and little tea as you talk about the book. Can you walk us through big tea specifically what you experience as a child and then also talk about little tea as well, what that looks like? So first we have to understand the word trauma itself and trauma doesn't just mean bad things happening to you it's actually not what happens to you or what happens inside you so traumas are wound. It's a saccological wound that you sustain or that persists and leaves an imprint in your mind and in your body and on your functioning.

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