Thank You for Every Instance of Healing Appreciation

"And he told me that in the Lakota tradition, when somebody gets ill, the community says, 'Thank you. Your illness represents some dysfunction in our whole community, because we are not separate. Your body is not separate from your mind, and your mind is not separate from the rest of our minds. We co-create each other. So your illness represents some dysfunction, some imbalance in our whole community. So your healing is our healing. How can we support you?' That’s the traditional Indigenous way of looking at human beings, which modern science, by the way, has more than amply validated, but which modern medicine still ignores."

~ Gabor Mate on L. Mehl-Madrona

“The Myth of Normal”: Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture | Democracy Now!

https://www.democracynow.org/2022/9/16/myth_normal_gabor_mate_trauma_mental