# Întrebări Puternice - Dr. Gabor Maté (Trauma & Healing)

**Sursă:** [Why You Feel Lost in Life: Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma & How to Heal](https://youtu.be/tool-R8VJ2Y)  
**Data:** 2026-04-03  
**Tags:** @coaching @growth @health  
**Tip:** Powerful Questions pentru Self-Inquiry și Coaching

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## 🎯 Context

Aceste întrebări sunt extrase din conversația Mel Robbins cu Dr. Gabor Maté. Sunt design-uite să bypass-eze **self-blame** și să inducă **compassionate curiosity** - esențială pentru vindecare.

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## 🔑 Întrebări Centrale

### 1. **Întrebarea Fundamentală: "Why?" (Compassionate)**
> "I wonder WHY I'm behaving this way?" (vs "Why am I behaving this way?!" = indictment)

**Când să o folosești:**
- Când observi un pattern nedorit (shutdown, hypervigilance, people-pleasing)
- Când simți shame sau self-judgment
- Când vrei să înțelegi, nu să te condamni

**Follow-up questions:**
- What adaptation might this be?
- What situation in my childhood made this necessary for survival?
- If a friend behaved this way, what would I think?

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### 2. **The Child Perspective Flip**
> "If this happened to one of YOUR kids, do you think they wouldn't be hurt by that?"

**Contexte de utilizare:**
- Când minimizezi propria trauma ("It wasn't that bad")
- Când compari cu alții ("Others had it worse")
- Când te blaming pentru răspunsuri normale

**Variatii:**
- "If my child came to me with this, would I say 'there's food on the table, what are you complaining about?'"
- "If my daughter felt this way, what would I tell her?"
- "Would I blame my child for adapting to survive?"

**Impact:** Shiftează din self-criticism în self-compassion printr-un bypass emotional (folosești instinctul parental).

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### 3. **The Safety Question**
> "Why wasn't my daughter talking to me about feeling scared and confused?"

**Răspuns (în cazul Mel):** "Because she didn't feel safe talking to me."

**Aplicație personală:**
- "Why didn't I talk to my parents about [event]?"
- "What made it unsafe to ask for help?"
- "When did I learn that I have to handle things alone?"

**Ce dezvăluie:** Primary trauma (loneeleness, lack of safety) care a precedat traumatic event.

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### 4. **The Help Question**
> "Can you ask for help, or is that a challenge for you?"

**Follow-up:**
- "When did I stop asking for help?"
- "What happened when I tried to ask for help as a child?"
- "What belief do I have about needing help?" (weak, burden, etc.)

**Insight:** You were BORN knowing how to ask for help. Something educated it out of you.

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### 5. **The Feeling Question**
> "How did you FEEL when this happened?"

**De ce e puternică:**
- Bypass-ează intelectualizarea ("It wasn't that bad")
- Reconnectează cu emotional truth
- Validează experiența internă (nu doar external event)

**Follow-up:**
- "Who did you speak to about feeling this way?"
- "What did you do with those feelings?"
- "Where are those feelings now?"

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### 6. **The Adaptation vs Damage Question**
> "What if this isn't damage, but an adaptation?"

**Reframe-uri:**
- Hypervigilance → "What situation required me to be hyper-alert to survive?"
- People-pleasing → "When did I learn I had to make others happy to be safe?"
- Emotional shutdown → "What pain was I protecting myself from by disconnecting?"
- Workaholism → "What am I trying to prove, and to whom?"

**Impact:** Shifts from "I'm broken" to "I adapted to survive."

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### 7. **The Needs Question**
> "What childhood needs were not met?"

**Categories (Gabor's framework):**
- **Unconditional acceptance:** Was I seen for who I am, or who they wanted me to be?
- **Emotional attunement:** Were my emotions understood and validated?
- **Rest/Safety:** Did I have to WORK to maintain the relationship with my parents?

**Indicator questions:**
- "Did I feel I had to be a certain way to be loved?"
- "Were my emotions criticized or dismissed?"
- "Did I feel responsible for my parent's emotional state?"

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### 8. **The Sibling Comparison Question**
> "Did my siblings experience the same childhood I did?"

**Answer:** No. Here's why:
- Birth order differences
- Gender differences
- Parents' relationship phase when you were born
- Economic situation
- Your unique temperament (sensitive vs resilient)

**Application:**
- "What was unique about MY experience in the family?"
- "How did my temperament interact with my parents' capacity?"
- "What role did I play in the family system?"

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### 9. **The Default vs Fault Question**
> "Am I running on DEFAULT, or is this my FAULT?"

**Distinction:**
- **Default** = unconscious pattern programmed in childhood (not your fault)
- **Fault** = conscious choice with awareness (responsibility)

**Questions:**
- "Is this behavior automatic, or am I choosing it?"
- "When did I first learn to respond this way?"
- "What would happen if I responded differently now?"

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### 10. **The Responsibility Question**
> "Is recognizing what happened making me a VICTIM, or taking RESPONSIBILITY?"

**Key distinction (Gabor):**
- **Victim mentality:** "They did this to me, I can't help it."
- **Responsibility:** "This happened, AND it's my capacity to change it now."

**Empowering questions:**
- "What am I ready to take responsibility for changing?"
- "What support do I need to heal this?"
- "Who do I want to be moving forward?"

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## 🛠️ Cum să Folosești Aceste Întrebări

### 1. **Self-Inquiry (Jurnaling)**
- Alege o întrebare care rezonează
- Scrie timp de 10-15 min fără cenzură
- Observă ce emoții apar (nu le judeca)

### 2. **Coaching Sessions (Morning/Evening)**
- Include 1-2 întrebări în ritual zilnic
- Track patterns over time
- Celebrate insights, nu doar "răspunsuri corecte"

### 3. **Therapeutic Work**
- Folosește în terapie (EMDR, IFS, etc.)
- Partajează cu terapeut pentru deeper work
- Journaling între sesiuni

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## 🌟 Quote-uri Puternice Legate de Întrebări

1. **"The healing needs to begin with some compassionate curiosity towards the self."**

2. **"It's not a question of being victims. That happened, and it's your responsibility and capacity to change that now."**

3. **"Nobody's damaged goods. These are just adaptations. The abnormality is not in the individual, it's in the circumstances."**

4. **"We're born seeking help. You've never met a one-day old infant who doesn't know how to ask for help. Something educated it out of us."**

5. **"If you had been able to talk to your parents and they said 'This is awful, come here, let me hold you' - THAT'S what you needed. Not just the event to not happen."**

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## 📋 Template pentru Self-Inquiry

**Situație/Pattern observat:**  
_Ex: Am tendency să shut down când partenerul meu e supărat_

**Întrebarea compassionată:**  
_"Why might I be doing this? (curious, not judging)"_

**Răspuns (first instinct):**  
_"Poate pentru că..."_

**Child perspective flip:**  
_"If my child shut down like this, what would I think?"_

**Need unmet:**  
_"Ce nevoi nu au fost îndeplinite care m-au învățat acest pattern?"_

**Adaptation recognized:**  
_"This is an adaptation to... (situation)"_

**Responsibility now:**  
_"Ce pot face acum diferit?"_

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## 🎯 Key Insight pentru Aplicare

**Diferența dintre "de ce" (why) ca atacat și "de ce" (why) ca explorare:**

❌ **"Why am I SO STUPID?!"** (indictment, shame)  
✅ **"Hm, I wonder why I responded that way?"** (curiosity, compassion)

Tone-ul schimbă TOTUL. Prima întrebare închide. A doua deschide.

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**Următorii pași pentru Marius:**
- Testează 2-3 întrebări în următoarele coaching sessions (morning/evening)
- Observă care întrebări provoacă cel mai mult resistance (= acolo e work-ul)
- Folosește "child perspective flip" când minimizezi propria experiență
