What can we do to do to address the overwhelming anxiety in our lives right now? What can we do to be kinder to ourselves, to be in a better position to effect positive change, as therapists and as human beings? Physician, trauma expert, and bestselling author Gabor Maté offers his perspective. From the Voices of Psychotherapy 2020 Online Conference sponsored by Psychotherapy Networker, PESI, and the American Counseling Association.

"On some level we don't want to take responsibility. So the question is how to take responsibility? Furthermore, he says the reality is every problem we have can be looked at in two ways. We can look at it as a difficulty to get rid of, or a message from our true selves. We can look at it as something to overcome and get through or as a possibility of learning."-Dr. Gabor Maté

Can we be addicted to ideology? Gabor Maté is an world famous expert on addiction - in his book 'In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts' he talks about how addiction is best viewed not as a crime or illness but as a coping mechanism for a personal, spiritual crisis.

For Full Talk Dr Gabor Maté - Why Capitalism Makes Us Sick: Society is not designed and arranged in support of the individual, in support of the nature of the human being, rather the individual is compromised turned into a machine, for the "greater good" and its service to its society. We each indeed have our own shadows in which we need to be responsible for, and also protect ourselves by becoming aware of the shadows of the society that we live in.

Dr. Gabor Maté speaks on the role of childhood trauma in chronic disease and mental health. Daybreak's Mind-Body-Spirit Psychotherapy Conference, 2018.

Mary J. Blige...Life is about relationships before it's about your personal achievement.

“We got to go back. The only way we can go forward is to go all the way back and that’s very scary to do for everybody, but the only way you’re gonna fix yourself is to go all the way back, to the beginning, to your childhood cause that’s where everything starts.” –David Goggins

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"Guilt is that friend...It's a stupid friend. You're problem is you don't want to feel it, make friends with it. My suggestion is next time you feel guilt, be happy about it." More Gabor Maté

"The trauma is not what happens to you, but what happens inside you. You get disconnected from your emotions and you get disconnected from your body and you have difficulty being in the present moment and you develop a negative view of your world and a negative view of yourself and a defensive view of other people." Dr. Gabor Maté Interview