Lessons in intuitiveness from an absolute impostor
One of the first things my very traditional sister-in-law said to me when I was newly married and squashed next to her in a car with many inter-generational relatives was this: “Now don’t have children in a hurry. This translates loosely as, “How much does the baby trouble you?” It is meant to sound caring but is actually an utterly callous expression designed to make one snap out of the magical connection one feels with one’s child. “When I talk about being connected to ourselves, “ says Dr Maté, “I’m talking about actually knowing what we feel and experience in a given moment, and being able to interpret that appropriately. “Mamma, I read somewhere,” our 14-year-old daughter said to me, “everyone says don’t succumb to peer pressure. Reading Dr Maté words, I smiled at how much resonance I felt when he says, “In a certain sense I’m an absolute imposter, because I write all these different books and I speak in many different countries and talk about addiction, child development, stress, health and parenting…and I’m only saying one thing.
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