Dr. Gabor Maté on How to Reframe a Challenging Moment and Feel Empowered | The Tim Ferriss Show

“We don’t respond to the present moment, we respond to the past.” Amen!

Tim is uncomfortable. Hits a nerve with him. Still working through childhood trauma....like most of us. Way to go for posting and being brave.

"Once you see yourself as the source, now you're powerful." Thank you, Gabor.

We don’t respond to what happens, we respond to our perception of what happens... 🔥🔥

Wow Tim it took guts to post this! No one could ever convince me you don't care about your audience after being so publicly vulnerable - ironically this makes you appear even more masculine & worthy of respect.

Tim is like your grown up brother, healing himself and showing the way to his siblings and the rest of the world. thank u for showing up for your inner child. 💓

Love to see authentic content!!! Tim made himself vunerable, stayed in the moment, was visible uncomfortable, but went through the conversation and we as an audience share the “Aha” moment 🙌🏼

Someone once told me: never assume malintent, meaning don't assume someone is out to hurt/betray/annoy/damage you, the real answer is usually much more complicated. I've tried over time to reserve judgement because of that advice. Learn the whole story first, then proceed.

Trauma is when we don’t respond to the present moment we respond to the past.

Gabor Maté has a heroic gift for healing. Thank you, Tim Ferriss, for this.

Who else just wants to give Tim a hug after this act of emotional bravery?

So brave of Tim to venture into this exercise with Dr. Maté. The doctor is right though, with our traumas we are really responding to the past more so than the present.

It's not the event - it's the meaning we give it. Beautifully illustrated here.

Having the language to articulate how we feel is a huge step in resolving, unwinding our mental anguish.

My counsellor turned me on to Gabor, he is an amazing mind and a very self aware human being. So happy I got connected to him. I am now 18 months clean from the dtes. Turned my life around.

Dr. Gabor Mate is a modern-day wizard. The combo of Tim Ferriss -- whom I admire and his work with the wizard is powerful beyond measure. Bravo Tim for your vulnerability.

How beautiful this is, to watch how Gabor navigates and leads Tim safely to the learning. Tim’s relieved smile at his “aha!” moment at the end is priceless 🥰

Simply incredible. Best learning I had in my last 12 years of personal development. Thank you, Tim and Gabor Mate.

This was a very powerful lesson. I will never forget "Reframe This Situation" (thank you Dr. Mate), which puts an almost immediate halt to ftrue anger or, worse, blowing a gasket. The important reminder for me in this is that people do things, or don't do things, for reasons I may never know about or understand, and very likely their actions or inactions have nothing at all to do with me. That's not to say if their behavior is habitual I'm not entitled to do something about it, but at least I will come to a decision intellectually and not emotionally.

Tim really reached down deep for that power move and put something out there for all of us to learn and benefit from, and he handled it with absolute class and gratitude.