Ed O'Brien

And this book was exactly what I needed.

The universe provided me.

Susie said, I think you should read this book, When the Body Says No.

And I was reading it.

And, you know, it's essentially, he noticed in private practice that a lot of people with autoimmune diseases and cancers and addictions,

where's the source of this, it's all in childhood.

And he said, it's all in childhood.

And he does that beautiful thing that somebody who's very learned and you know they're speaking the truth, it seems really simple.

And I was reading this and he was giving examples of case studies and talking about the trauma of the child.

And I was reading it, so I'm going, I was like,

Well, that's like my childhood and I'd never allowed myself to go.

I'd never allowed myself to use that word trauma, right?

It feels like such a heavy word.

Trauma was something that was, you know, if like Gabor Mate, for instance, his parents and his grandparents were in concentration camps.

That felt to me like trauma.

That's a level of hurt and trauma.

So I wasn't allowing myself.

I'd go, well, you know, it was, yeah, it was a bit of shit, but, you know, in that classic way.

But what I realized I'd done was, I think in order to cope with it, and obviously like, you know, Gen X in Britain,

No one, none of us, none of us processed anything.