A compelling integration of the many threads - cultural, environmental and neurobiological elements - that all work together and separately to produce the suffering that is pandemic across the planet.

1. The Enchanted Loom
Teasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks

2. Teasing 10
threads from
Gabor & Daniel
Maté ’s …
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3. 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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)

11. 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)

12. 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)

13. 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/

14. Mark Brady, PhD
TheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com
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