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EP 100 Trauma, Illness and the Myth of Normal (with guest Gabor Maté)

Better Me

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What Are the Implications for Society When We Don't Deal With It?

A lot of politicians, including here in Canada, certainly in the US, have very traumatic life histories that they've never dealt with. Until we become conscious of it, they govern our lives in ways that we're not aware of and therefore we unwittingly pass them on to our offspring. We can't help it. This is multi-generational. I, myself, passed on my traumas to my children. I didn't mean to, but I did. It's an outrage because of the multigenerational trauma that was imposed on them from the outside. They make up 5 percent of the population, 50 percent of the women in jail in this country are indigenous. In Vancouver

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