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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
informative
medium-paced
dark
emotional
informative
informative
slow-paced
Redeeming elements of this book include:
-An overview on all the ways our culture sets us up to be held in our traumas spanning the wide range of birth, childhood, racism, capitalism, climate change, uncertainty and fear, politics etc.
-Background explanation to why medicine needs to consider life experiences and traumas (little and big) when approaching prevention and treatments
-A chapter coaching on how to examine unhelpful painful beliefs you may hold to begin healing.
On the other hand it’s a behemoth read and gets a bit weird in pockets so you either have to have an open mind or be prepared to skim parts.
-An overview on all the ways our culture sets us up to be held in our traumas spanning the wide range of birth, childhood, racism, capitalism, climate change, uncertainty and fear, politics etc.
-Background explanation to why medicine needs to consider life experiences and traumas (little and big) when approaching prevention and treatments
-A chapter coaching on how to examine unhelpful painful beliefs you may hold to begin healing.
On the other hand it’s a behemoth read and gets a bit weird in pockets so you either have to have an open mind or be prepared to skim parts.
medium-paced
I "read" this book via audio and listened to the first 59% in November and then had to wait until February to get it again and finish it. So the information is definitely disjointed in my mind and I think I need to read a lot of other reviews to really remember the initial parts of the book. While I agree with most of Mate's critiques of our society and the resulting negative impacts on our collective physical and mental health, this as a hard book to read. He listed so many examples of people, especially women, with various health conditions brought on, he theorizes, by their attempts to respond to an unhealthy society or personal traumas. I felt as if I might come down with every health condition he detailed because I too once kept my feelings to myself or put someone else's needs above my own or went through an extraordinarily stressful time period. So that's kind of what sticks with me from this book: fear. Somehow, his last chapters, in which he tried to promote a positive vision for healing, haven't penetrated anywhere near the same degree as the fearful examples.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Amazing book if you want to better understand yourself and why you belief what you belief. Did you have a happy childhood? Or did you suffered any traumatic experience that has sense shaped who you are? Maybe you didn't even ever asked yourself this question, but your early life experiences built the foundation upon which you've built the rest of your life. Take the time, take the journey and maybe understand why you behave the way you do now, and how this (toxic) culture sometimes support and even worships traits that are not healthy for us.
I checked out as soon as he described ADHD (and more) as "so-called" mental illness. Aside from the content here, this book is overwhelmingly exhaustive, even though the main point can be dwindled down to this: You go to a friend for advice, and that friend says, "Wow. I'm so sorry, but everyone had a bad childhood. That's obviously where your inflammation comes from. And that cancer? Well, silly, you have to start saying no more! Embrace life! How 'bout you stop thinking about it so much? There's nothing you can do. What about going for a walk?"
The only thing worse than a book that blames illness on the victim through various religion-based buzz words and pseudoscience is a terribly written book that blames illness on the victim through various religion-based buzz words and pseudoscience.
The only thing worse than a book that blames illness on the victim through various religion-based buzz words and pseudoscience is a terribly written book that blames illness on the victim through various religion-based buzz words and pseudoscience.