The Myth of Normal Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

I think for me, definitely it was Dr. Gabor Mat's The Myth of Normal, was definitely my favorite book of the year that I read.

Now today we're talking about his new book called The Myth of Normal, Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture.

I want you to go and order this book right now. It is going to blow your mind.

So the book is called The Myth of Normal, Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture.

by the way everything we're talking about is in this incredible book the myth of normal trauma illness and healing in a toxic culture if you don't have it please go and order it now

I cannot recommend this more

So this book, The Myth of Normal Best seller internationally Published in 35 languages I should be happy No, the more I get involved with it The more I toured with it The more engaged with the outside The more miserable I became inside So the great success of the book It swept me away And I lost myself

And I talk about this in the myth or normal And really my wife came on stage at the troxium On the night and talked about this I asked her to

And then again in the myth or normal People tended to be Compulsively concerned with the emotional needs Of others rather than their own

So much so that in this book, The Myth of Normal, I actually talk about an experience with the psychedelic mushrooms with a therapist.

I think my understanding of trauma has forever been redefined by both this conversation today, but also by your book.

Thank you so much for giving me the platform to talk about my work and just the opportunity to meet you. It's written in such an accessible way, which is so important because that means it can reach even more people.

He has a new book out now called The Myth of Normal, Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture. It's a beautiful book. I encourage everyone to read it.

The Myth of Normal was 19 weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list. It's been on the Canadian bestsellers list for a year and is being published in 34 countries.

His latest book is called The Myth of Normal, Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture.

That's the myth of normal. Also to say that then when people have mental or physical health conditions, we call them abnormal. I'm saying those are normal responses to an abnormal situation.

So where's the abnormality in the individual or in the culture? I'm saying it's in the culture.

And in the book The Myth of Normal, I began with prenatal life through birth, through childhood, through all of our cultural manifestations. I'm saying we live in a culture that makes us sick because it sets us against our very needs as human beings.

In this society hardly anybody escapes that because of the way we wish children is so estranged from what the human child actually needs with that little introduction if I can ask you a few questions.

His latest book is called The Myth of Normal, Trauma Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture.

In the book The Myth of Normal, I begin with prenatal life through birth, through childhood, through all of our cultural manifestations. I'm saying we live in a culture that makes us sick because it sets us against our very needs as human beings.

He has this book called Myth of Normal, where he makes the case that our understanding of trauma is all wrong. And that many more of us than you might think are living with trauma.

He goes so far as to say that he believes trauma is the root cause of many diseases, including things like addiction in our society.

As Mat writes in the myth of normal, quote, the past hijacks and co-ops the present, again and again.

He basically is saying that trauma is literally making us sick.

In other words, Jack Bankstead, the newest scientist, he wrote a book called The Archaeology of the Mind.