Kaelah’s Reviews > The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture > Status Update

Maybe due to Zoom U, but I do not remember MS being autoimmune other than maybe a quick mention in PT school. It’s part of our neuro courses, which were extensive and have helped me treat patients with MS. However, seeing it as the body’s response to unresolved psychological wounds will require PT + psych

“by definition trauma represents a distortion and limitation of who we were born to be. Facing it directly without either denial or over-identification becomes a doorway to health and balance.”

I did not know Gabor Maté was a Hungarian Jew during Nazi occupation!! He could have easily been killed, but he uses his trauma to literally heal the whole world. I knew he was a gem and gift to society, but I didn’t know how close the world was to not having him

“chronic illness - mental or physical - is to a large extent a FUNCTION or FEATURE of the way things are and not a GLITCH; a consequence of how we live, not a mysterious aberration.”