Finding The Path to Freedom with Dr. Gabor Mate
The Sakara Life Podcast
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The Myth of Normal Opens With an Episode
I am just committed to people being free and freedom implies freedom both from external coercion and structures that would use them. But freedom also means being free from our own unconscious drives that are determined and ingrained in our psyche when we are small before any choice in the matter. Trauma is a psychological wound that we sustain and then we keep acting from it as if it was still the present, but actually occurred a long time ago. The first chapter of my new book opens with an episode where I come home from a trip and my wife is not at the airport to meet me and interact like an abandoned and enraged one year old baby.
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