Dr. Gabor Maté joins me for a grounded and precise conversation on addiction, stress, trauma, and the patterns that shape health, behaviour, and attention.

In this discussion, Gabor explores:

✓ Why addiction is not a personal failing, but a response to pain ✓ Why the real question is not “why the addiction?” but “why the pain?” ✓ How stress regulation is shaped early in life ✓ Why many behavioural patterns originate in childhood ✓ How the brain develops through environment and relationship, not genetics alone ✓ How trauma reflects a disconnection from the self, rather than simply the event

This conversation is part of The Health Zone, hosted by Mícheál Ó Mathúna — author of The Eleven New Commandments and an integrative practitioner working in the areas of conditioning, self-trust, and internal regulation.

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In this conversation, we explore not just the theory, but how these patterns show up in lived experience and the process of returning to a more honest relationship with oneself.