Honestly, this book by Gabor Maté is such a banger! Every second page is like this, riddled with salient points and wobbly highlights from reading on the train.

Here in the bottom highlight he puts into words what many of us have been saying to each other for decades: our parents’ good intentions to improve our material security has come at the cost of our emotional and psychological stability.

It’s no one’s fault, just an ideological glitch in the culture, but yes it’s our responsibility to change the culture.

More and more I am starting to take an active role in this cultural responsibility, participating in men’s health circles, starting the Brisvedas Dharma Circle, studying peer work at TAFE and offering experimental coaching in psychological-fitness training …

… because we can recondition our minds and hearts to turn these habits around and create a healthier and more-sustainable culture, one individual, one family, one community at a time.

And as Mate says, there is much to learn about this from the ways of being that are still modelled by traditional societies alive today.

Get in touch if this resonates with you ~ I’d love to hear from you and see how we can put our energy together toward this imperative call to adventure into our ancient future.

We don’t have to continue fumbling along on our own, struggling and wondering what to do in this weird alienating culture of ours.

We can heal our trauma and step into flourishing, and we can do it in this lifetime!

Answer the call! ☎️🌍🤯📚🤓🙏🏻🦋💚

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