#gabor mate

[shamebats]

For those habituated to high levels of internal stress since early childhood, it is the absence of stress that creates unease, evoking boredom and a sense of meaninglessness. People may become addicted to their own stress hormones, adrenaline and cortisol [...]. To such persons stress feels desirable, while the absence of it feels like something to be avoided.

From When the Body Says No by Gabor Maté.

[thecalminside]

The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.

-Gabor Maté

[askyea-poesy]

Children don't get traumatised because they get hurt. They get traumatised because they're alone with the hurt.

Gabor Mate

[kellymagovern]

[rini-descartes]

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."

— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

[lisablack000]

“If you don't know how to say 'no,' your body will say it for you through physical illnesses.”

— Gabor Mate

[onekindredspirit]

Gabor Maté on Gaza: 'The Moral Issue of Our Time'

[dein-wille-geschehe]