Dr. Maté weaves together scientific research, case histories, and his own insights and experience to present a broad perspective that enlightens and empowers people to promote their own healing and that of those around them.
Awakening is understanding we have a voice
in our mind that is the ego.
Our ego has an endless stream of opinions,
Our ego has an endless stream of opinions,
‘truths’ and beliefs about who we are
and who other people are.
The ego is our protector,
The ego is our protector,
keeping us in the familiar cycles we grew up in.
When we become more aware of the ego,
When we become more aware of the ego,
we can understand we are not our thoughts.
We aren’t our opinions.
We aren’t our past.
We aren’t our endless stream of identities.
This is how we become free from our own suffering
This is how we become free from our own suffering
(much of our suffering doesn’t actually come
from the events we experience,
it comes from the meaning
we assign to those experiences)
Beware The Second Arrow!
Our egos have been working to protect us,
Our egos have been working to protect us,
they need continued love and guidance in
the integrative repair.
“The whole thing about The One is that it pretends to be many.
Here, that’s the gimmick.
The game of hide and seek is dismemberment, falling apart.
Losing control. Losing unity. Let’s disintegrate.
And then, after you’ve been dismembered, let’s remember.
And come back to oneself,
and know who it really was all the time.”
“So much of what we call abnormality in this culture is actually normal responses to an abnormal culture.
The abnormality does not reside in the pathology of individuals,
but in the very culture that drives people into
suffering and dysfunction.”
Gabor Maté
In The Wisdom of Trauma, we travel alongside physician, bestselling author and Order of Canada recipient Dr. Gabor Maté to explore why our western society is facing such epidemics.
This is a journey with a man who has dedicated his life to understanding the connection between illness, addiction, trauma and society.
Trauma is the invisible force that shapes our lives.
“Trauma is not what happens to you.
Trauma is what happens inside you,
as a result of what happens to you.”
Gabor Maté
Trauma is the invisible force that shapes our lives.
It shapes the way we live, the way we love and the way we make sense of the world.
It is the root of our deepest wounds.
Dr. Maté gives us a new vision: a trauma-informed society in which parents, teachers, physicians, policy-makers and legal personnel are not concerned with fixing behaviours, making diagnoses, suppressing symptoms and judging, but seek instead to understand the sources from which troubling behaviours and diseases spring in the wounded human soul.
Dr. Maté gives us a new vision: a trauma-informed society in which parents, teachers, physicians, policy-makers and legal personnel are not concerned with fixing behaviours, making diagnoses, suppressing symptoms and judging, but seek instead to understand the sources from which troubling behaviours and diseases spring in the wounded human soul.
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