[kowsheek]

You might just be on the money.

Having come from a similar background, where the childhood abuse was real and looking back on my life I realize how much of my stress to succeed and achieve was really an attempt to appease/show up my parents. Addiction to work and "bad" habits was all a part of the response to that childhood abuse.

Like I wrote in one of my tweets [1], Gabor Mate's work has helped me to see and work towards reworking my relationship to stress.

It's unfortunate that Gabor Mate's work isn't part of our conversion around addiction, stress, crime and suicide.

[1] https://twitter.com/ksqio/status/1334978112703131651

[ciabattabread]

Is there a particular book of Dr. Mate’s that you recommend?

[kowsheek]

Both "Scattered Minds" and "When the Body Says No" are great. I've found the content on Youtube from his talks very insightful as well. Particularly this series of videos in Scotland starting with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tef5_HK5Zlc.