I would really suggest all of y'all watch The Wisdom of Trauma. It's a documentary film about Dr. Gabor Maté and how substance abuse is caused by trauma - specifically, ACEs (adverse childhood experiences). The website says the film is only available to view from June 8-14, but I'm watching it right now at the above link. If you want to watch it, I suggest you get to it before they take it down.
From the website:
> Trauma is the invisible force that shapes our lives. It shapes the way we live, the way we love and the way we make sense of the world. It is the root of our deepest wounds. Dr. Maté gives us a new vision: a trauma-informed society in which parents, teachers, physicians, policy-makers and legal personnel are not concerned with fixing behaviors, making diagnoses, suppressing symptoms and judging, but seek instead to understand the sources from which troubling behaviors and diseases spring in the wounded human soul.
> With this film, we hope to touch many people, begin a conversation, and develop a common understanding about how trauma impacts our individual lives, communities and society as a whole.
Of course, there are images of drug use and paraphernalia, but it's not gratuitous.
If you've watched it, let me know what you thought of it.
I've seen a few of his videos of his pop up I've watched a few including one of him critiquing Peterson he seems decent. Just wondering what you guys think of him
He’s a physician and speaker who worked with substance addicts in Vancouver, Canada. I’m about to read his book “In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts.” His favorite quote is something like “don’t ask why the addiction, ask why the pain?” He says the addiction mechanism is the same for pretty much everything.
Also, I’ve just finished reading “Your Brain On Porn.” That was amazing and enlightening.
In this book the author mentions an interesting theory of how a child during its development needs a north pole(which is a parent or a parent like figure) to orient itself through out the maturation period but due to socio-cultural prowess of the modern world the child changes its attachment figure to their peers which leads to a tragic upbringing and a confused future, this also affects the parents a lot as the child becomes secretive, over rebellious etc. I recommend reading link 2 down below for better understanding of this theory means.
I really wanted to discuss the validity of this idea and also opinions of fellow members-
1) I will leave a link for people wanting to read the book here-
https://archive.org/details/holdontoyourkids00gord
2) For a short yet detailed understanding of peer to peer attachment idea click here-
https://healthhomeandhappiness.com/hold-onto-kids-book-review.html
https://thewisdomoftrauma.com/
“The greatest damage done by neglect, trauma or emotional loss is not the immediate pain they inflict but the long-term distortions they induce in the way a developing child will continue to interpret the world and her situation in it. All too often these ill-conditioned implicit beliefs become self-fulfilling prophecies in our lives. We create meanings from our unconscious interpretation of early events, and then we forge our present experiences from the meaning we’ve created. Unwittingly, we write the story of our future from narratives based on the past...Mindful awareness can bring into consciousness those hidden, past-based perspectives so that they no longer frame our worldview.’Choice begins the moment you disidentify from the mind and its conditioned patterns, the moment you become present…Until you reach that point, you are unconscious.’ …In present awareness we are liberated from the past.” ― Gabor Maté
Hi fellows! Thought you might find this interesting;
I just read Numinus Investor Pitch and learned that Gabor Maté is on NUMI's team as their clinical advisor. I'm passionately into the world of psychedelics', and know that Gabor Maté is one of the most prominent people in this. If Maté speaks, everyone listens.
That truly made me even more confident in NUMI.
I am super excited that we recently got the chance to interview Dr. Gabor Maté, author of "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts" among other best-selling books. He and Mike had a great conversation about anxiety, stress, and addiction, all substantial issues in the legal field, and Dr. Maté offered some truly valuable insights. It's one of my favorite episodes we've done so far, and I hope you find it as helpful as I did!
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