
Dr. Gabor Maté
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Trauma and Human Freedom
There's something that the two of you were just touching on. I went back into your book here and was looking at a quote. So you quote psychologist Rolo May and they say human freedom involves our capacity to pause between stimulus and response. And in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. We don't have control over how we feel actually. The process then is regaining that freedom or becoming free of trauma.
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