Bestselling author and physician Dr. Gabor Maté talks with Rich about the nature of addiction, trauma, and illness in a toxic culture often at odds with true healing. To read more about Dr. Maté and peruse the full show notes, go here👉🏾https://bit.ly/richroll702
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:46 - Unpacking Dr. Gabor's Thesis in New Book, "The Myth of Normal"
00:04:23 - Huge Gap Between Science-Based Evidence & Medical Practice
00:08:08 - Defining Trauma
00:12:14 - How Trauma Affects Chronic Ailments
00:14:45 - Disease as Teacher
00:17:28 - The Major Factors of Stress
00:19:48 - Impact of Loneliness on Health Outcomes
00:21:36 - Social-Economic & Racial Issues Lead to a Rise in Illness & Addiction
00:24:21 - Epigenetics: How a Hostile Environment Affects Our Genetics, Across Generations
00:27:48 - Childhood Development - Problems with Conditional Love
00:31:57 - Finding Agency & Authenticity, Spontaneous Healing
00:37:09 - Why Does It Take Great Suffering to Make a Lasting Change?
00:43:41 - Ad Break
00:45:32 - Trauma-Informed Legal System
00:48:24 - Trauma-Informed Medicine
00:50:44 - Moving Forward: Escaping the ‘Victim Identity’
00:53:38 - Recognize the Wound, Take an Honest Personal Inventory
00:57:46 - Gabor collaborating with his eldest son (Daniel) on this latest book
00:59:44 - Author David Foster Wallace ‘Fish in water” antidote
01:01:20 - The Willingness to be Disillusioned
01:04:43 - Dr Gabor Mate's Thoughts on Addiction and Recovery
01:04:51 - Social-Economic & Racial Issues Lead to a Rise in Illness & Addiction
01:11:26 - Recovery as a Path to Self-Actualization
01:14:28 - Is It Possible to Add Trauma Awareness and Reframe the 12 Steps?
01:22:20 - Reframing Rich's Relapse
01:24:45 - Parenting Advice
01:33:48 - A Child's Emotional Withdrawal from Their Parent. What Does It Mean?
01:36:22 - Closing

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