The Myth Of Normal (illness, Health & Healing In A Toxic Culture)

By (author) Maté, Gabor; By (author) Maté, Daniel
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The empowering book exploring the link between trauma, illness, and modern life – and how to heal your health. From the acclaimed physician and bestselling author of When The Body Says No.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD

‘Life-changing’ Mel Robbins, bestselling author of The Let Them Theory

‘Riveting and beautifully written’ Bessel van der Kolk, bestselling author of The Body Keeps Score

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We tend to believe that normality equals health. But in today’s modern world, rising rates of anxiety, depression, addiction and chronic illness suggest otherwise. So, what is normal – and is it making us unwell?

In this life-affirming book, Dr Gabor Maté connects the dots between trauma, mental health, and physical illness, showing how our health is shaped by the pressures and expectations of modern life.

Drawing on decades of clinical experience, and real-life stories of people transforming their bodies and minds, Dr Gabor Maté offers a compassionate and hopeful path to healing, self-awareness and emotional wellbeing.

In The Myth of Normal, you’ll discover:

• Why the illnesses of body and mind can natural responses to a toxic culture
• How stress and emotional suppression affect the body
• The science behind the mind-body connection in healing and wellbeing
• A hopeful path towards resilience, balance and authenticity

Compassionate and urgent, this empowering bestseller shows how true health is possible when we are willing to embrace our authentic selves.

Praise for The Myth of Normal and Dr Gabor Maté:

‘Genuinely changed my life’ Steven Bartlett, bestselling author of Diary of A CEO

‘Intellectual and compassionate…essential reading’ Tara Westover, bestselling author of Educated

‘A wise, profound and healing work’ Johann Hari, bestselling author of Stolen Focus

‘Brilliant, compelling and groundbreaking book’ Tara Brach, bestselling author of Radical Acceptance and Radical Compassion

‘An essential compass during disorienting times.’ Esther Perel, psychotherapist, bestselling author and host of Where Should We Begin

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Gabor Mate takes us on an epic journey of discovery about how our emotional well-being, and our social connectivity (in short: how we live), is intimately intertwined with health, disease and addictions ... This riveting and beautifully written tale has profound implications for all of our lives, including the practice of medicine and mental health
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Wise, sophisticated, rigorous and creative: an intellectual and compassionate investigation of who we are and who we may become
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A book literally everyone will be enriched by - a wise, profound and healing work that is the culmination of Dr Maté''s many years of deep and painfully accumulated wisdom
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An astonishing achievement, epic in scope and yet profoundly down-to-earth and practical. I will read this book again and again
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Brilliant, compelling and groundbreaking. Gabor Maté offers us a way to bring clear seeing and a greatness of heart to the crisis of our times
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A book in which readers can seek refuge and solace during moments of profound personal and social crisis
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Gabor Maté''s connections - between the intensely personal and the global, the spiritual and the medical, the psychological and the political - are bold, wise and deeply moral. He is a healer to be cherished
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