Finding The Path to Freedom with Dr. Gabor Mate
The Sakara Life Podcast
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The Coupling Mechanisms of Self Suppression
"Self suppression leads to all kinds of mental and physical health conditions," he says. "Parentifying a child is not the only way to get there, but it's a very common way in homes where there's a parent ill or where there's parental violence." When his mother abandoned him when he was 11 months old, John Lennon wouldn't even look at her for several days. The same coping mechanism that was necessary at one time in life becomes a danger at another.
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