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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
Holding onto my highlighted and tabbed physical copy of this book forever.
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If you're really interested in how trauma and the body are connected and how a lot of stress, trauma and repressed emotions show up as physical and chronic illnesses, this is a very good book on the topic. It backed up everything I already sort of knew about the topic with lots and lots of studies on different types of illnesses and their connection to trauma and stress. Then it explored everything that goes wrong in our society from conception throughout childhood through adulthood that facilitates these effects on the body and how it has become so normalized but isn't actually what should be normal. The book also offers some ideas on healing in the last part and I took some very useful things away from it. Some bits were a bit weird to me, like the entire chapter on traumatized politicians. I didn't see the point of that. But otherwise this was a very good and useful read
Every single person should read this book. Every single person could benefit from Dr. Maté’s words. This book opened my eyes to a whole new perspective of my own illness. I cannot conceive of a way to write a detailed review of this book. I will simply say that this book is profound, and I will be ruminating on it for the foreseeable future. That is, I believe, the highest praise that I can deliver.
I highly recommend this book.
I highly recommend this book.
I'm overwhelmed by the stickies, so pulling quotes is unlikely.
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Great book, very eye opening on how our society shapes our health outcomes.
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Very detailed and informative, but this is NOT always a good thing! The writing was a bit pretentious, but I did like how there were referenced studies from various years and countries and how, while there were anecdotes, it wasn't just fully anecdotal.
Unfortunately, this book became repetitive hammering home facts. Every chapter there were paragraphs of "x group is y more likely to be affected by z due to their status as a member of x group". Sometimes these would overlap over different chapters. Again, shocking facts, but not surprising.
Unfortunately, this book became repetitive hammering home facts. Every chapter there were paragraphs of "x group is y more likely to be affected by z due to their status as a member of x group". Sometimes these would overlap over different chapters. Again, shocking facts, but not surprising.