I was born a year before Maté’s youngest son, whose birth story forms a tenderly personal undercurrent inThe Myth of Normal. Maté describes himself during these years as addicted to work, sometimes shouldering 15 deliveries a month to avoid grappling with his own inner demons. He reflects on...
zenmate Andrii Popov (andrii-popov) David Fuhr Malte Müns Rodrigo Aguilera Vladimir Varlamov (iamvar) Aurimas Niekis (gcds) Benjamin Zaslavsky (tiriel) Vincent Chalamon Matthieu Calie (matth--) Benjamin Schoch (bschoch) Martins Sipenko Guilherme Augusto Henschel Rostyslav Kinash Dennis Fridrich (...
I’m writing another book with my son, and it will be entitled ‘Hello Again: A fresh start for adult children and their parents’. Very often adult parent-child relationships are so fractured that by the time they become adults, we don’t even know how to relate to our parents and vi...
I want to end with the words my beautiful, smart, estranged forty-seven year old son said to me once and that was ‘You and dad should never had kids, you are so fucked up!’ Now I know what he meant but he does not know what I might just do with the knowledge, awareness, and...
Zsa Zsa Gabor. Actress: The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear. Undoubtedly the woman who had come to epitomize what we recognize today as "celebrity," Zsa Zsa Gabor, is better known for her many marriages, personal appearances, her "dahlink" catchphrase
Trauma is that scarring that makes you less flexible, more rigid, less feeling and more defended. Gabor Mate on The Tim Ferriss Show (Photo: The Tim Ferriss Show / YouTube) I’ve heard you mention in the past that we live in a highly-traumatised society. How widespread is trauma in ...