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Very thorough research covering trauma and its long-lasting impacts on the body, the mind-body connection, and the many social/racial/gender/culture disparities in achieving health. If you read any Gabor Maté book, this one might be a good pick. For me, however, this text felt like a very large overview of his other books with a few additions (namely the inequality and justice pieces, the ways our society is disconnecting us further, and the inclusion of indigenous practices for healing, of which have been very colonized by the American mental health industry).
FYI - this is not an uplifting book. Feel-good, self-help it is not. It takes a much harder stance and requires the reader's full dedication to taking a good, hard look at our toxic, disconnected society and its impact on the ways we grow up and live our lives - from birth to adulthood. It covers fun topics like attachment and shame, toxic positivity and perfectionism, and has a great deal of parent blame (though also some compassion and empathy, too).
I was a bit more impacted by In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Maté's text on addiction processes, though this book covered that topic for several chapters. There were several great thinkers, books, and quotes mentioned in this book and it would be a great reference or starting point for anyone looking to learn more about trauma.
FYI - this is not an uplifting book. Feel-good, self-help it is not. It takes a much harder stance and requires the reader's full dedication to taking a good, hard look at our toxic, disconnected society and its impact on the ways we grow up and live our lives - from birth to adulthood. It covers fun topics like attachment and shame, toxic positivity and perfectionism, and has a great deal of parent blame (though also some compassion and empathy, too).
I was a bit more impacted by In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Maté's text on addiction processes, though this book covered that topic for several chapters. There were several great thinkers, books, and quotes mentioned in this book and it would be a great reference or starting point for anyone looking to learn more about trauma.