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My friend and fellow clinician, Joel Schwartz, and I recorded a Facebook Live video as a follow-up to my recent blog post about Gabor Maté. Our freewheeling conversation covered lots of topics, including the nature of creativity itself. We also talk about the push-pull dynamic between feeling compelled to express and desiring to hide our creative selves. Click to 4:30 on the video to get to the start of our conversation. I hope you enjoy! If you are interested in pursuing psychotherapy with either of us, here is our contact: Rachel Moore: rachel@rachelmoorecounseling.com, 619-452-1082, http://www.rachelmoorecounseling.com/ Joel Schwartz: dr.jschwartz1@gmail.com (424) 265-8185  By Rachel Moore, LMFT
I was recently invited along with a few dozen other mental health clinicians to a small, salon-style discussion with author Gabor Maté. When I had the opportunity to ask him a question that night, he told me I was wrong. And I’m glad he did. If you’re not familiar with Maté, he is a renowned Hungarian-Canadian physician who specializes in neurology, psychiatry, psychology, and addiction. His basic premise is the mind and the body are inseparable. Maté’s books include “When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection” and “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction.” Maté is also a Holocaust survivor, and he focuses on the effects of early childhood trauma in disease and addiction. In one interview, he said: “There are genetic predispositions to addictions, but they don’t cause addiction by themselves; they just increase the risk. In both animal and human studies subjects don’t become addicted if they receive the proper nurturing, even in the presence of predisposing genes.”  I spoke on the San Diego country radio station KSON this morning about the recent shooting in San Diego and how best to help those who were affected and dealing with the aftermath. You find the full interview here. |
AuthorRachel Moore, LMFT, is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapy in San Diego, CA. Rachel helps writers, artists, musicians, and other creative types overcome anxiety, trauma, and depression. She is trained in EMDR therapy. Archives
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Rachel Moore, LMFT
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist MFT #102826
rachel@rachelmoorecounseling.com
www.rachelmoorecounseling.com
(619) 577-4514
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist MFT #102826
rachel@rachelmoorecounseling.com
www.rachelmoorecounseling.com
(619) 577-4514