Dr. Gabor Maté: Your Trauma Is Secretly Controlling You!
Physician, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
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Dr. Maté discusses how childhood trauma shapes mental and physical health.
🎯 Top Takeaways
- Healing requires safety, connection, and the willingness to feel what you've been avoiding
- The body keeps the score: unexpressed emotions don't go away; they get stored and expressed as illness
- Saying 'no' is a complete sentence—boundaries are essential for health
- Compassionate inquiry asks: 'What happened to you?' not 'What's wrong with you?'
- Authenticity is the antidote to many modern illnesses—suppressing your true self makes you sick