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Dr. Gabor Mate: Healing From Addiction & Trauma

A Life of Greatness

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Kids Are Acting Out

Acting out is a really good English phrase. It means to portray in behavior something you haven't got the words to say in language. Kids are acting out there, unverbalized emotional dynamics. Our job is to understand what this stress they're acting out and respond to their needs rather than to their behavior. Permissiveness is bad for the kid, but it also doesn't mean punishment.

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