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Did You Sacrifice Authenticity For Connection?

How Our Biological Need For Safety Sabotages Our Ability To Be Ourselves

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Joe Gibson
Nov 23, 2023
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How Our Biological Need For Safety Sabotages Our Ability To Be Ourselves

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I’ve recently been reading Gabor Mate’s, The Myth of Normal. In it the renowned psychologist Dr. Mate challenges Western civilisation’s seemingly “broken” healthcare system by unravelling the truth’s of human nature — and how these truth’s are consi…

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