Being nice is bad for your health, while being angry is healthy, Dr. Gabor Mate unpacks the inner depths that lie beneath the personality you show to the world.
In this new episode Steven sits down again with world-renowned trauma and addiction expert, Dr. Gabor Mate.
Dr. Gabor Mate is a physician and an expert on addiction, stress and childhood development. For 12 years, Gabor worked in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside with patients challenged by drug addiction, mental illness and HIV. He has over 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience. His books include: ‘When the Body Says No’, ‘In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction’ and most recently, ‘The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture’.
In this conversation Gabor and Steven discuss topics, such as:
- His tough year
- His biggest self-criticisms
- Why you don't have to identify with emotions
- The importance of saying ‘no’
- Why he can't follow his own advice
- Losing himself with success
- His interview with Prince Harry
- Why he regrets this interview
- What he learned about Prince Harry
- How Prince Harry was a traumatised child
- The importance of asking for help
- The need to reconnect to our gut feelings
- Why gut feelings are everything
- How we play out our traumas
- Why women take the pain for both partners in a couple
- How repressing anger makes you sick
- Why you need healthy anger
- The ways that repressing emotions makes you sick
- The worst part of trauma
- How being nice hurts your health
- Why people need to be angry
- Why people pleasers are unhealthy
- How you can inherit stress
- The power of knowing your trauma
- The need to learn how to breath
- Why people are having sex too soon
- How success will never give inner peace
- The goal you should chase in life
You can purchase Dr. Mate’s most recent book, ‘The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture’, here: https://amzn.to/40unjpo
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