Breath of life – conference on addiction with Gabor Maté

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For those of you living in the UK:

TRAUMA & HEALING: AN EXPLORATION OF MENTAL ILLNESS, ADDICTION AND DISEASE
WITH DR. GABOR MATÉ
* MAY 18TH – 19TH 2017 *

Trauma is not what happens to us, but what happens inside us. Based on Gabor Maté’s bestselling books, this two-day workshop will explore the traumatic basis of physical disease, mental illness, addiction and childhood developmental problems. It will illuminate all of these conditions not as separate diagnostic entities, but as bio-psychosocial phenomena, manifestations of the unity of mind and body, physiology and psychology, and of the individual with the social environment. Treatment approaches must flow from such a holistic understanding.

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I am happy that I quit. I think I keep on growing into the person I was ment to be. That is good because it sort of feels like I am ‘straightening out’. Like my spine is growing back. Does that make sense?

xx, Feeling

6 thoughts on “Breath of life – conference on addiction with Gabor Maté”

  1. Yes, it does!
    I am happy I quit, too!
    Sometimes I think I am growing into a new person all together.
    Then, other times, I think I am still the core of me but with new life skills.
    Either way, I am WAY better off not drinking!
    xo
    Wendy

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