Episode-by-episode discussion of When the Body Says No by Gabor Maté — hidden stress, the illnesses it feeds, and the cost of never saying no. Each episode takes one chapter and turns it into something you can use today. Part of Burnout Books to Podcasts.
8 episodes listed below. All 40 are on Apple Podcasts, free, no signup.
Millions of patients are told their excruciating chronic pain is "just psychological." We validate the agonizing reality of physical pain and expose why the traditional medical system so frequently dismisses the powerful connection between emotional stress and bodily suffering.
The phrase that has been used to dismiss patients — overwhelmingly women — for a century. We go through Maté's account of what that dismissal costs, the conditions it has been aimed at, and how to hold the mind-body link without ever handing that phrase back to anyone.
Can a lifetime of swallowing your feelings actually affect your cognitive decline? We explore the frightening connection between chronic emotional suppression and the onset of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.
ALS, and the pattern Maté reports among the people who develop it. We cover the striking consistency he describes in their life histories, the care with which he frames it, and what a reader should and should not take from a chapter like this one.
Autoimmune disease occurs when your body loses the ability to tell the difference between friend and foe. We unpack how a psychological inability to set personal boundaries can physically confuse your immune system into attacking its own tissue.
Autoimmune disease as a confusion about where the self ends. We go through the biology, the parallel Maté draws to people with no boundaries in their own lives, and why he thinks the metaphor is more than a metaphor.
Your nervous system doesn't operate in isolation; it is constantly being regulated—or dysregulated—by the people around you. Discover the immense biological power of human attachment and how toxic relationships physically alter your health.
Your physiology is not sealed off inside your skin — it is regulated, in part, by the people around you. We cover the research on relationships as biological infrastructure, and what happens to a body that has no reliable connection to anyone.
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