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Masks Off: Inner Freedom For People-Pleasers and Perfectionists · Nov 4, 2021 · 21m

So many of us have experienced trauma as young children but we never thought of it as trauma. Usually when we think of trauma we think of some huge traumatic event. Gabor Mate actually explains that trauma is a disconnection from self. So, if we frame it this way, many of you may be able to think of many times throughout your lives when you disconnected from your true self. That is the trauma and this becomes a pattern every time we feel triggered. Gabor Mate and others explain that this is a multigenerational epidemic.

“Trauma means a disconnection from self. We become disconnected from…