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Cultivating self-awareness and self-reflection
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Practicing mindfulness and presence
The relationship between childhood adversity and adult outcomes
Adverse childhood experience:
- physical or sexual or emotional abuse, a divorce, a parent being jailed, violence in the family, a parent being evicted, a parent being mentally ill, a parent dying.
For each of these adverse childhood experiences, the risk of:
- addiction goes up exponentially
- autoimmune disease goes up
- depression, ADHD and relationship problems, goes up
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Prisoners of Childhood
Prisoners of Childhood is written by a Swiss German Jewish psychotherapist named Alice Miller.
It was the first book that helped Gabor Mate get clear directions in his future work about trauma:
- stuff happens to us as children, negative things happen
- we adapt...
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Dr. Gabor Maté about Addiction
Addiction manifests in any behavior that a person enjoys, finds relief in, and therefore, craves in the short term but suffers negative consequences in the long term, and doesn’t give up despite the negative consequences.
Addiction is about behavior not about the substances...
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Buddhism vs Modern Psychology
- How we see the world determines the world that we live in. The Buddha was a great psychologist in that he recognized that our perceptions shaped the world that we live in.
- What he didn’t say, and that’s where modern psychology comes in, is that before, with our mind, we create our ...
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What Trauma Is And Is Not
A trauma isn't:
- A divorce when you were small, and your parents fighting
- Your mother’s depression
- Your father’s alcoholism
- Your parents’ argumentation
- Physical or sexual abuse or something else
The trauma is
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The trauma of omission
The trauma of omission where the parents, not that they didn’t love you, not that they didn’t do their best, but they were too stressed, traumatized, distracted themselves.
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Sensitivity vs Creativity vs Suffering
Gifted child or the sensitive child: the more sensitive he or she is the more he feels the pain and stress of the environment:
- sensitivity magnifies the pain that we have
- sensitivity leads to more creativity: there’s a really link between creativity and sensitivity, and creat...
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Adverse Childhood Experiences & Its Connection To Trauma
Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs, are traumatic events that happen in childhood, ages 0-18 years old.
ACEs include; experiencing violence, abuse, neglect and witnessing violence in the home or community. These experiences also include;...
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