"That's what trauma is. We don't respond to the present moment. We respond to the past." Dr. Gabor Maté on How to Reframe a Challenging Moment and Feel Empowered. "If you see that you're the source, now you're powerful."

"Attachment is a huge need. We have to connect, belong, be loved by, and love. That's just a basic human need. But we have another need as well and that is authenticity...to know what we feel, be in touch with our bodies and to express who we are and manifest who we are in our activities and in our relationships...Authenticity is another huge survival need." Gabor Maté, M.D. takes a special interest in early childhood trauma and the potential lifelong impacts on physical and mental health. Here he discusses the conflict children and adults often face staying true to their authenticity while potentially jeopardizing their important relationships.

Dr Gabor Mate - Self Love. "There needs to be some courage, a willingness to look at how it actually is, not how you'd like it to be, but how it actually is. One of the prime qualities of addiction is denial.", "Something else is possible and you're worth that possibility.", "Addiction is not who you are."

Canadian physician Gabor Maté is a specialist in terminal illnesses, chemical dependents, and HIV positive patients. Dr. Maté is a renowned author of books and columnist known for his knowledge about attention deficit disorder, stress, chronic illness and parental relations. His theme at TEDxRio+20 was addiction -- from drugs to power. From the lack of love to the desire to escape oneself, from susceptibility of the being to interior power -- nothing escapes. And he risks a generic and generous prescription: "Find your nature and be nice to yourself."

A feature-length documentary to be release in the Fall of 2020. “So much of what we call abnormality in this culture is actually normal responses to an abnormal culture. The abnormality does not reside in the pathology of individuals, but in the very culture that drives people into suffering and dysfunction.” — Gabor Maté

"Whatever serves our individual happiness serves all else that is."...."A BOUNDARY IS NOT ABOUT RESISTING WHAT YOU DO NOT WANT"..."We become convinced that the mask is us. It takes over our personality. It takes over our identity. It takes over our sense of self to the degree that we have no idea who we are, what we want...To have deep intimacy, to have a deep relationship with someone is to let the full, unrestricted, raw truth of who you are meet someone else at the heart center. You can't do that when there's a mask between you and them. We want someone in our lives desperately who knows how we feel, but we don't even understand how we feel." Teal Swan

"Can the hurts be healed so that not a mark is left...and can future hurts be prevented completely?" ~J. Krishnamurti: "If you have an image about yourself, you are inevitably going to be hurt...Can that image be wiped away?...I must first understand how this image is born...In understanding the innate, in understanding the hurt, in understanding the education in which one has been brought up, the family, the society, all that...in understanding all that comes the attention...While I am attending, the thing is leaving." ft. Loli Cosmica.

feat J. Cole...Teal Swan, The Victor Trap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUEaMTKyLa4

Depersonalization and depression often occur together. In this video I share my thoughts on this extremely difficult topic. Even though you probably don't feel like it, there is more hope and opportunity in this life than you can possibly imagine. And that's not coming from an unrealistic "head in the sky" perspective. It's based in the reality of recognizing opportunity, having intense optimism, and expecting setbacks to hit you. Anything worth achieving in life requires going through rejection, failure, setbacks, embarrassment, losses, and pain. The power of positive expectancy is one of the most powerful forces in human beings to get us to face and overcome the most challenging of obstacles. I also talk about developing a support network. If you are feeling suicidal especially, you MUST reach out for help immediately. You can't do it alone...video by Harris Harrington

"You know, actually – and that is a terrible thing to realize – actually, we have no love...Therefore such a mind has an infinite space both in the mind and in the heart; and so that mind is in a state of love; and in that sense of beauty, in that sense of vast, infinite space, there is creation." J. Krishnamurti, Varanasi, 5th Public Talk, 28th November 1964