Moment 210: Dr. Gabor Maté: Your Trauma Is Secretly Controlling You! (Until You Try This)

Speaking about our early experiences, the first word in the sort of subtitle of your book is the word trauma. Um, yeah. I've talked about a lot on this podcast and I've, you know, I've had a lot of people here that have opened up about their traumas. How how do you define trauma? I know society's defined it in its own way, but how do you define it? Yeah. I define it very specifically. Um it's not something bad that happens to you. It's not some not it's not that when y

You know. I went to this movie last night and I was traumatized. No, you weren't. You were just sad or you're had some emotional pain, but you weren't traumatized. Uh trauma means a wound. That's the literal meaning of the word. It's a Greek word for wounding. So trauma is a psychological wound that you sustain. And um

It behaves like a wound. So on the one hand. A wound if it's very raw. If you touch it, it just really hurts. So if I if I have a wound around

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