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

“The more insecure people feel the more they focus on material things.

What we are missing within cannot be replaced from without.The emptiness dogging us emanates from the places we have lost contact with our deepest selves .

I’d like to work in the coming weeks on the mechanics of what it means to continuing separating myself from the stuff that separates me from me.

I want to remember the inner.“

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“We need to celebrate and support people who are ill because they are the canaries in the mine.

They are the ones showing us our society is out of balance. We need to thank them for taking that on and doing it for the rest of us.”

I don’t even think we deserve the brilliance and chutzpah that is Maté 🔥

“The history of world is a history of a 10,000 year war of brains between the rich and poor.

The poor win a few battles , but the rich have won the war for 10,000 years.”

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“Yes, parents are responsible for their children.

No, they did not create the world in which they must parent them.

We need to put aside blaming parents and take a good hard look at the challenge of raising children in a socially toxic environment.”

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“When a baby is born, a mother is born”

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“Racism shortens lives.

When black and white middle aged women were compared, the results were shocking.

Black women were found to be over 7 years more biologically aged on average than their white counterparts.”

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