Dr. Gabor Maté explains why traumatic wounds get triggered and how to understand triggers in our process of transformation and healing. In these short informative videos, he describes his work, and so much more. He is offering his latest course by subscription. Take your power back. Dr. Maté untangles common myths about what makes us […]
The One Went for a Swim
Prescheduled. Steve is on holiday until Jan. 1. There will be no “Today” till then (pun intended). Most of us are catching our post-Xmas breath or are otherwise occupied so I’m allowing myself to wander philosophically…. To have some fun. If I were to go for a swim, I’d walk down to the water’s edge […]
By Tracing Addiction to Childhood Trauma, Can We Find Compassion?
Gabor Maté: “Our job, as human beings, is to learn from our suffering.” By Travis Lupick, Yes, November 15, 2021 https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/a-new-social-justice/2021/11/15/addiction-childhood-trauma-compassion “I’ve always been a rebel,” Gabor Maté says in The Wisdom of Trauma, a new documentary about the acclaimed physician’s groundbreaking work in mental health. “In communist Hungary, in grade six, my teacher wrote […]
Dr Gabor Maté and Fritzi Horstman: Compassion Prison Project
The heroes journey, going within to change our without. . . Gabor Maté and Fritzi Horstman have an indepth talk wondering what the world would be like if trauma was taken into account. Fritzi’s Compassion Prison Project embraces everyone from prisoners to guards in the system with their project motto this year being, Do […]