uh tree doesn’t grow where it’s hard and thick does it it goes where it’s soft and green and vulnerable thevulnerability is absolutely essential for growth and for vulnerability you gotta let go of those defenses such asthe best-selling author and host the number one Health and Wellness podcast on purpose with Jay Shettyhey everyone welcome back to on purpose the number one Health podcast in theworld thanks to each and every one of you that come back every week to listen learn and grow now I know that if you’relistening right now you’re here because you want to improve your mental emotional physical and spiritualwell-being I know that you’re trying to heal from trauma from stress from pressure you’re trying to healchallenges you experienced early in childhood or ones that you’re going through today and it’s my job and it’smy duty and it’s my honor and joy to introduce you to incredible people that I believe have answers have insightshave helpful approaches to navigating the challenges we all experience andtoday’s guest is someone I have been so excited to speak to for a long time on on purpose I hope this is not just hisonly time on the show I hope this starts to become a regular guest on
the show I’m talking about none other than DrGabor mate who’s a cell rated speaker and best-selling author he’s highlysought after for his expertise on a range of topics such as addiction stress and childhood development Dr mate haswritten several best-selling books including the award-winning in the realm of hungry ghosts close encounters withaddiction when the body says no the cost of hidden stress and Scattered Minds theorigins and healing of attention deficit disorder now today we’re talking about his new book called The Myth of normaltrauma illness and healing in a toxic culture and we have the link to this inthe notes I want you to go and order this book right now it is going to blow your mind the insights of thisindividual about what we’re going through as a culture and a society are going to be really powerful so
the bookis called the myth of normal trauma illness and healing in a toxic cultureplease welcome to the show Dr Gabor mate thank you so much for being herepleasure to be here thank you I love sitting down with people who are deeply immersed and obsessedwith ideas and observing human behavior Iadmire Obsession deeply in admiration deeply and I admire the ability to sit with something for along enough time but I want to start off Broad and I want to move in deeperand I think this is a question that me and my friends often talk about I think we hear the word trauma more often thesedays yes it’s thrown around sometimes sometimes it’s used effectivelysometimes it’s used in conversation around things that some people wouldperceive as small and insignificant sometimes it’s used to describelife-defining things in your words how would you describe trauma
