The Enchanted Loom
Teasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks

Teasing 10
threads from
Gabor & Daniel
Maté ’s …
é

Thread 1:
Once we resolve to see clearly how things are,
the process of healing – a word that at its root
means “returning to wholeness” – can begin.
(pg. 11)

Thread 2:
Someone without the marks of trauma would
be an outlier in our society.
(pg. 20)

Thread 3:
“Trauma is perhaps
the most avoided,
ignored, belittled,
denied, misunderstood,
and untreated cause
of human suffering.”
(pg. 21)

Thread 4:
Response Flexibility: the ability to choose how we
address life’s inevitable ups and downs, its
disappointments, triumphs and challenges.
(pg. 29)

Thread 5:
“So much of what makes people well or not is
not coming from within themselves, its coming
from their circumstances.”
(pg. 59)

Thread 6:
Poverty has been called a neurotoxin.
(pg. 326)

Thread 7:
Mental illness
has a story,
and in that story
you’re the only one
who has no power.
(pg. 236)

Thread 8:
While similar in some ways, pleasure and
happiness run on different neurochemical fuels:
pleasure employs dopamine and opiates, both
of which operate in short-term bursts, while
contentment
is based on the
more steady,
slow-release
serotonin
apparatus.
(pg. 298)

Thread 9:
The contemporary phrase emotional labor does
a great job of conveying the job-like nature of
stress-inducing,
externally
imposed roles.
(pg. 337)

Thread 10:
In a society that capitalizes on people’s sense of
inadequacy, the most prevalent self-limiting story
is bound
to be “I am
not worth it.”
(pg. 422)

Image Credits:
Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 3 - https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/in-pursuit-of-wholeness
Slide 12 - https://www.livinginwellbeing.org/why-we-feel-unworthy/
Slide 2 - https://soundcloud.com/hello-again-podcast
Slide 6 - https://fateofemilyann.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/life-is-a-roller-coaster-2/
Slide 5 - https://www.deviantart.com/jflaxman/art/Anguish-605621352
Slide 11 - https://www.edutopia.org/article/teaching-your-heart-out-emotional-labor/
Slide 10 - https://socialdocumentary.net/exhibit/Stephen_Shames/5874
Slide 14 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 9 - http://rootedthinking.com/2020/09/17/learning-contentment/
Slide 8 - https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/powerless.html
Slide 7 - https://www.city-journal.org/los-angeles-homeless-policy-is-a-billion-dollar-failure
Slide 4 - https://pixabay.com/images/search/trauma/

Mark Brady, PhD
TheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com
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