Gabor Maté
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Sep 12, 2026
Noushin HartGUEST
Exactly.
Noushin HartGUEST
Like Dr. Gabor Maté, who has written many beautiful, wonderful books.
Noushin HartGUEST
One of them called When the Body Says No.
Noushin HartGUEST
Our bodies have been whispering for years that, no, this is not good for you, but we have not been listening.
David WilsonHOST
I love that.
David WilsonHOST
Um, and you know, uh, the magnificent Gabor Maté is like not why the addiction, why the pain.
Millie GoochGUEST
Mm.
David WilsonHOST
You know? But not everyone has trauma, but s- a lot of people come to me and they say, "Oh, I had an idyllic, um, childhood." And when you break it down, it's not so ideal, right? So it's the big Ts, little ts, right? And I say, you know, "Were ...
Sara Hirsh BordoGUEST
Dr. again, bless him.
Sara Hirsh BordoGUEST
Gabor Mate has been very kind about the book.
Sara Hirsh BordoGUEST
And he and I were in an interview and I, I reflected on the fact that I actually wonder if my documentary filmmaking was a almost an introduction to my curiosity through being curious about other people before I became curious about myself.
Erin KinneyHOST
Yeah, that's interesting.
Trudy GoodmanGUEST
When I was actually preparing for this retreat, one of the books I read was called In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Close Encounters with Addiction by the Canadian doctor.
Trudy GoodmanGUEST
Well, he's not originally Canadian, but he lives in Canada, Gabor Maté.
Trudy GoodmanGUEST
And so I want to share with you some things that I learned from this book.
Trudy GoodmanGUEST
I don't think we can talk about desire and longing without saying a few words about addiction or crooked longing.
Emma StapletonHOST
It's really fascinating.
Emma StapletonHOST
And what you were just saying then about women, I know that Gabor Mate talks a lot about, you know, they exaggerate how autoimmune, which is an inflammatory, you know, a byproduct of inflammation, happens predominantly to women.
Emma StapletonHOST
And, you know, he looks at the kind of societal construct around the expectations around women and correlates it.
Emma StapletonHOST
But what you're saying is, there is really interesting that there's this kind of like biochemical piece as well that compounds that.
Rachel MussonHOST
And it's really looking at attachment styles and healing traumas and moving into more balanced ways of being.
Rachel MussonHOST
And the other one, which is blowing my mind every day as I read more, is by Gabor Maté, which is called The Myth of Normal.
Rachel MussonHOST
Really looking at the kind of cultural illness or ill health that we are all sort of bathed in and how many of the ways of life And, you know, so much in that book resonates with so much of what we do at Thoughtbox.
Rachel MussonHOST
But I think what I found so supportive is, you know, 70 years of depth research, of case studies, of really integrative inquiry that he's bringing.
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Rachel MussonHOST
And the learning that's happened personally has been profound and especially recognising that, you know, trauma is not what's happened to us.
Rachel MussonHOST
It's what's happening inside us.
Rachel MussonHOST
And part of what I really appreciate about both Bessel van der Kolk's and Gabor Maté's definitions of trauma is and our medical version of trauma is it's a wound.
Rachel MussonHOST
So trauma, if you think about the medical hospitalised version, it's a wound and it's the same.
Christine CocchiolaGUEST
They didn't have the opportunity to latch on to someone who loves them unconditionally, has positive regard for them, and in that, that child from early development realizes they can be their authentic self.
Christine CocchiolaGUEST
Gabor Maté talks about this.
Christine CocchiolaGUEST
Like, authenticity is so very much a part of attachment.
Christine CocchiolaGUEST
And so our role as protective parents is to love our children unconditionally.
Ian Morgan CronHOST
So I know, you know, I've had to walk through some dark valleys.
Ian Morgan CronHOST
And I was thinking on the trail, actually, while I was on the trail, I was reading Gabor Mate's book, The Myth of Normal.
Derwin L. GrayGUEST
Hey, I love that guy.
Ian Morgan CronHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Vijay GuptaGUEST
We don't question that.
Vijay GuptaGUEST
We don't judge that person for the cancer coming back, but we judge the addict for what Gabor Mate calls just like the symptom of the story, right? The addiction is just the symptom.
Vijay GuptaGUEST
The real thing is what's the story and that the real healing actually can only happen when we are able to tell a new story about ourselves.
Vijay GuptaGUEST
when we're able to literally self-author our lives in a new way, which is something, again, that I learned in time spent with people in recovery, that the only way to heal is to tell a new story about yourself, which is also inherent to the artistic act.
Jason ChaneGUEST
And then there are different things that we go through in our life that activate the predisposition.
Jason ChaneGUEST
Now, Gabor Mate talks about that quite often, and I happen to agree with some of the stuff he talks about with that.
Jason ChaneGUEST
Like, it's not necessarily predetermined, but you can be predisposed.
Jason ChaneGUEST
And if you never activate it, then you don't know.
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