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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
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3.5 stars rounded up.
- Really interesting content but it can sometimes turn into a slog to get through. I found myself struggling to stay awake at time and it started to seem repetitive.
- After reading this book, I want to tell some people in my family about how their childhood still messes with them today but I don't know how to do it in a way that doesn't sound like I'm calling them out.
- The last part is about how to heal and move forward. It includes some exercises you can do yourself and I really like that because the author is actually trying to give you helpful tools.
- Really interesting content but it can sometimes turn into a slog to get through. I found myself struggling to stay awake at time and it started to seem repetitive.
- After reading this book, I want to tell some people in my family about how their childhood still messes with them today but I don't know how to do it in a way that doesn't sound like I'm calling them out.
- The last part is about how to heal and move forward. It includes some exercises you can do yourself and I really like that because the author is actually trying to give you helpful tools.
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Boring and confusing without a skeleton that flows well from chapter to chapter. I felt like I lost 24 hours of my life by learning nothing new. 600 pages of how everything links back to trauma, drawing conclusions for everyone based on his lived experience or case studies. I agree with the premise of trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive approach, but I still cannot understand how this guy calls himself an “expert” and has such a following. In one review, someone was calling out pseudoscience and his rejection of medical science, and it feels close enough. This was my second try to read a book by Gabor Maté and probably the last one.
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Really thorough and brilliant book. It took me a while to finish it but it was engaging. Kind of scary to see how early in our lives everything gets shaped up for us, but change is possible, though I do think difficult without widespread societal changes. I really appreciated the chapter on addictions, and I look forward to reading Maté's other book on that topic.