Trauma, the Subconscious Brain and Helping the Next Human Along with Dr. Robb Kelly

Memorable Moments:

• 7:12: I want to say off the bat is alcohol has nothing to do or hardly nothing to do with alcoholism and the same with drugs. It’s not the alcohol. It’s actually a predisposition with alcoholics and of course the trauma. Everyone asks me what the gateway drug is Dr. Robb? I say trauma, forget about marijuana. It’s trauma. We need to get back and look at trauma.
• 12:24: Anything less than nurturing, as a child, is child abuse. So think about that for a second, because we have to be careful what our children are exposed to, how they eat, how they act around others.
• 15:34: The understanding of all this brings us to the fact that you can fully recover from alcoholism and addiction. You just know, knowledge is the game here. It’s all knowledge. The more you know about brain science, the more you recover from the disease and get on with your life.
• 16:39: Most of the traumas we forget and we hideaway. And we disassociate with that traumatic effect. But where it’ll come out is in your relationships.
• 17:19: So if you’re looking at your behavior [and] you have certain traits that you get to a certain point in self-sabotage, there’s trauma behind that.
• 20:22: And I’m guaranteeing you, and I mean guarantee, that if you do this and readdress your trauma, and you go back to the scene of the crime and you clear all that up, you will have a life beyond your wildest dreams.
• 20:49: Everybody has trauma. It’s just like everybody knows somebody who’s an alcoholic or addict. And if you don’t, then it’s probably you. This is what I tell people because the disease and the thought pattern and the depression is rife, but nobody’s talking about it.
• 21:18: It’s about bringing people out and actually acknowledging that if you tell people you have a problem and you’ve recovered from it, it gives other people hope.
• 23:53: If you’re in that position, if you don’t think you’re good enough if you don’t think you’re going to amount to anything, I want to apologize to you. Because somebody’s put that there. We are born with million-dollar minds. Stop hanging around 10 cent minds, guys. You can do anything that you want to do.
• 24:24: Life’s for living guys. Don’t think this is your lot. You know, if you’re homeless or sat in a one-bedroom apartment and you can’t afford food, this isn’t your lot. This is training. This is your training. So when you go on, because it’s all about helping the next human being along.

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