The Myth of Normal

“uh this book the myth of normal this is your book yeah it's called the myth of normal trauma illness and healing in a toxic culture”

“and uh the myth of normal is this how currently is it out right now september the 13th september 13th”

“So, this book, The Myth of Normal, you know, best-seller internationally and published in 35 languages, I should be happy.”

“As I make the point in The Myth of Normal, and children can be traumatized not just by terrible things happening to them, but just by not having their needs met.”

“Um as the subject of my book When the Body Says No, and then again in The Myth of Normal, people tended to be compulsively concerned with the emotional needs of others rather than their own”

“so much so that in this book The Myth of normal I actually talk about a an experience with psychedelic mushrooms at the with the therapist”

“well part of the toxicity of the culture that I talk about in this book is that it actually rewards that kind of emptiness”

“so in your class like like race and class in this Society of inequality are certainly traumatic potentially traumatic inputs as I pointed in this book”

“the other aspect of it was that again my view is as I pointed in this book and in previous Works who gets sick and who doesn't isn't isn't exactly accidental”

“because um I called in this book uh there's a great Hungarian Canadian stress researcher called Janus celi a c-l-y-e”

“you describe it as a calling yeah the myth of normal yeah”

“as we say in this book there are congenial Liars but there are no congenital Liars”