Kaelah’s Reviews > The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture > Status Update

“by definition trauma represents a distortion and limitation of who we were born to be. Facing it directly without either denial or over-identification becomes a doorway to health and balance.”

I did not know Gabor Maté was a Hungarian Jew during Nazi occupation!! He could have easily been killed, but he uses his trauma to literally heal the whole world. I knew he was a gem and gift to society, but I didn’t know how close the world was to not having him

“chronic illness - mental or physical - is to a large extent a FUNCTION or FEATURE of the way things are and not a GLITCH; a consequence of how we live, not a mysterious aberration.”