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Gabor Maté

Happy Place

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Parenting Instincts

I think most parents enter, they may have read several books or listened to podcasts about parenthood and gone, Oh God, what technique do I apply here? And everybody seems so emphatically sure with their methods but they are because they're cut off from their instincts and intuitions. When you even think of letting your child cry and not picking them up, what are you feeling? It's a horrible feeling. Well, that's your mother instinct. So part of the art of parenting, it's just to get back to our parenting instincts. Yeah. No, I, I absolutely know he doesn't.

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