Dr. Adi Jaffe

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359 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 8 Jul

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ? · Dr. Adi Jaffe: The Truth About Addiction, Trauma, Shame, and Breaking Free · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

We didn't have a say in where we were born, what we did on a daily basis, what culture, what habits, what world environment in our home we were born into, right?

Now, for many of us, the environment was relatively safe and maybe casually traumatizing and stressful, but not in a severe way.

But for a subset of people, and the subset I'm talking about is 15 to 20% of the population, that's not true.

They grew up in our version of hell.

For that subsection, that's why I'm going to answer this in a few different sections.

For that section of the population, they are fighting an uphill battle because those experiences of childhood shifted the way their brain processes the world in a way that for many others is unfathomable.

I've never struggled with this, but I've dealt with hundreds of clients who were sexually abused as children.

It's hard to only rest on personal responsibility when that happened to you as a child.

And you're also still right.

The abuse happened 10, 15, 20, 30 years ago.

You, unfortunately, it's not fair, but you unfortunately are now saddled with a ton of work to do to overcome something you had no role in doing.

One of my favorite therapeutic kind of retreats environments that I went to, the practitioners there had this saying that I really like, which is everybody's guilty and nobody's to blame.

What does that mean?

I'm here now.

All the people who hurt me in the past may be guilty of hurting me.

They have their own reasons.

They tried whatever in their distorted version of reality was the best.

And I'm still the one sitting here trying to change my life.

They can't do it for me.

So it still falls in line with what you were talking about, Tony.

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