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Biography: Gabor Maté is known for his expertise in addiction, stress, and child... more Biography: Gabor Maté is known for his expertise in addiction, stress, and childhood development. A retired physician, he spent over 20 years in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside working with patients suffering from addiction and mental illness. Maté is also a best-selling author and sought-after speaker on trauma and its impacts on health. less

"The primary events of trauma rarely end when the traumatic experience itself ends"

Tags: Mental health, Psychology, Recovery, Trauma, Emotional healing

"The very same brain centers that interpret and process emotional pain are the ones that interpret and process physical pain"

Tags: Mental health, Emotional pain, Neuroscience, Physical pain

"Children don’t get traumatized because they get hurt; children get traumatized because they’re alone with the hurt"

Tags: Resilience, Mental health, Support, Healing, Parenting

"Authenticity is, at its heart, the recognition of what you truly need"

Tags: Personal growth, Self-awareness, Mindfulness, Self-discovery, Authenticity

"The more we stress, the more likely we are to be hung up on behaviors that relieve stress in the short term"

Tags: Mental health, Psychology, Well-being, Stress management, Coping mechanisms

"We don’t get to witness who we might have been if trauma hadn’t shaped us this way"

Tags: Personal growth, Resilience, Self-discovery, Mental health, Identity

"We have an epidemic of stresses in the world that keeps people from being who they really are"

Tags: Personal growth, Mental health, Authenticity, Well-being, Self-identity

"The circuitry of addiction runs parallel to the circuitry of love"

Tags: Love, Relationships, Mental health, Human nature, Psychology

"Contrary to what is often taught in schools, mental health is not merely about the absence of disease"

Tags: Mindfulness, Mental health, Psychology, Education, Well-being

"The deepest psychological wounds are hidden from the conscious mind"

Tags: Self-awareness, Mental health, Psychology, Healing, Subconscious

"Addiction is not a choice that anybody makes, it’s a response to pain"

Tags: Mental health, Behavior, Pain, Choice, Health

"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"

Tags: Mental health, Psychology, Emotional health, Child development, Trauma

"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour"

Tags: Mental health, Understanding, Hope, Psychology, Behavior

"The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates"

Tags: Motivation, Inspiration, Passion, Well-being, Balance

"Not why the addiction but why the pain"

Tags: Self-awareness, Mental health, Psychology, Introspection, Healing

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