Dr. Gabor Maté: The Root Cause of Trauma and Why You Feel Lost in Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798190021967)

This book reveals the hidden root cause beneath your anxiety, depression, addiction, and chronic pain - and shows you how healing is actually possible.

You've tried managing the symptoms. The therapy that scratched the surface. The self-help books that gave you frameworks but left the ache untouched. The mindfulness apps, the journaling, the sheer willpower to just be better. And still, something persists - a lostness you can't quite name, a pattern that keeps returning, a weight that has no obvious origin story.

That's not a character flaw. That's a wound.

Most approaches to trauma focus on what happened to you. This book shifts that entirely.

The Root Cause of Trauma presents a clinically grounded, neuroscience-backed framework for understanding trauma not as an event but as what that event left inside you - embedded in your nervous system, your body, your relationships, and the story you tell yourself about who you are. Unlike conventional approaches that require a dramatic origin story to validate your suffering, this method shows you how invisible wounds - absent parents, conditional love, emotional neglect - shape the nervous system just as deeply as visible ones.

Inside, you'll discover:

→ Why your anxiety, failed relationships, and chronic illness may all trace back to a single nervous system wound - and how to identify yours
→ The neuroscience of why "time heals all wounds" is one of the cruelest myths in mental health
→ How your body has been speaking your trauma in the only language available to it - and how to finally translate it
→ Five evidence-based healing paths - from somatic therapy and IFS to EMDR and Compassionate Inquiry - so you can find the approach that fits you
→ Why healing is a relational process, and what that means practically for your recovery

What makes this different? While most trauma books focus on diagnosis or dramatic events, this framework meets you exactly where you are - even if nothing "bad enough" ever happened to you.

Imagine waking up without that familiar knot of dread. Moving through relationships without the pull to leave before you're left. Feeling, for the first time, that the weight you've been carrying finally has a name - and a way forward.

Every day without understanding your wound is another day it runs your life from the background. The method is here. The path is clear.

Scroll up and start reading today.

Author: Psy D. Marcus Neria
ISBN-13: 9798190021967
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 07/31/2026
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d