When the Body Says No:
Mind/Body Unity and the Stress-Disease Connection
This series of presentations and workshops by Dr. Gabor Maté are based on his book When The Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress, a best-selling book that has been translated into more than ten languages on five continents.
Stress is ubiquitous these days — it plays a role in the workplace, in the home, and virtually everywhere that people interact. It can take a heavy toll unless it is recognized and managed effectively and insightfully.
Western medicine, in theory and practice, tends to treat mind and body as separate entities. This separation, which has always gone against ancient human wisdom, has now been demonstrated by modern science to be not only artificial, but false.
Sponsors
East West Health CentreYukon Community Development Fund
Yukon Wholistic Health Network
Dr. Maté - On Writing
"For many years after becoming a doctor, I was too caught up in my workaholism to pay attention to myself or to my deepest urges. In the rare moments I permitted any stillness, I noted a small fluttering at the pit of my belly, a barely perceptible disturbance. The faint whisper of a word would sound in my head: writing. At first I could not say whether it was heartburn or inspiration. The more I listened, the louder the message became: I needed to write, to express myself through written language not only so that others might hear me but so that I could hear myself."
Excerpt from When the Body Says No