Clouded Compass: From Barriers to Breakthroughs

12 days of Gabor Mate: Ch 8 - how current 'norms' work against basic human needs

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Gabor Mate's latest book the Myth of Normal is VITAL to our well-being.  I find it SO relevant to our current individual and social ailments that I'm sharing the first 12 chapters and my reflections on them based on my personal and professional experience as a Behavioral Health Provider and a Trauma Survivor.

Part 2: The Distortion of Human Development

Chapter 8: Who Are We Really?  Human Nature, Human Needs

What are basic human needs and exploration of how our ‘norms’ work against them

In the following chapters we will be exploring:

  • How our ‘norms’ are working against our well-being
  • How mind-body are have been separated and why that matters,
  • The interpersonal nature of our health,
  • The assault on our minds and bodies of our current ‘norms’,
  • The cost of our unnatural inauthenticity,
  • The human needs we aren’t meeting (including the basic human needs of children)
  • How we transfer trauma generationally and biologically and;
  • The medicalized trauma of how we birth our next generation.

    • I promise it’s not all doom and gloom though, we will be covering solutions as well, so stay tuned, listen up and let me know what you think!

    Next up, Chapter 9: A Sturdy or Fragile Foundation: Children’s Irreducible Needs

    Vital Child Development Needs and the generational cost of not meeting them


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    Clouded Compass: From Barriers to BreakthroughsBy Laurie Smith, LMSW, CDE, CCATP, CCTP, CAIMHP, IHRP, SMART Facilitator