Healing Days
Why nothing you’ve tried has worked - and what trauma is really doing inside you
A 5-day guided path to understand trauma, reconnect with yourself, and begin real change
With the world’s leading trauma experts
Gabor Maté, Bessel van der Kolk, Tim Fletcher, Marisa Peer and Frank Anderson
Gabor Maté
Physician & Bestselling Author
Bessel van der Kolk
World-Renowned Trauma Expert
Marisa Peer
Bestselling Author & Speaker
Tim Fletcher
Trauma Recovery & Addiction Specialist
Frank Anderson
Psychiatrist
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PROGRAM GUIDE
A 5-day guided path to understand trauma, reconnect with yourself, and begin real change
Rewiring Your Mind for Healing
Wth DR. GABOR MATÉ & TIM FLETCHER & MARISA PEER
Understanding trauma's impact on the brain : what trauma really is and how it keeps you stuck in lifelong patterns Breaking free from mental prison : why your coping mechanisms became your brain's default settings and how childhood wounds create self-sabotage, anxiety, and emotional shutdown The first step toward mental freedom : why insight alone won't rewire your brain, and what you need instead to finally reconnect with your authentic self 2 exercises to relieve physical pain and heal your mind Q&A with Tim Fletcher and Marisa Peer 
Reconnecting with Your Authentic Self
With Dr Gabor Maté
The heart of healing: Stopping the cycle of emotional reactivity : why your pain keeps repeating and how trauma hijacks your emotional responses, sabotaging your choices Compassion : why is compassion a cornerstone of healing and what are the different types of compassion? Experience: the 5-step exercise to overcome your inner conflicts Q&A with Dr. Gabor Maté 
Special Session: Exclusive excerpts from the masterclasses of Gabor Maté and Bessel van der Kolk
With GABOR MATÉ AND BESSEL VAN DER KOLK
Gabor Maté : What trauma really is (and why it’s not what you think) Bessel van der Kolk : How trauma still shapes your daily life (without you realizing it) Bessel van der Kolk : Tapping practice to calm the nervous system Q&A Why Trauma Lives in the Body, and How to Get Out of Survival Mode
With GABOR MATÉ
A powerful real-life story showing how trauma can stay stored in the body long after the event is over. The science behind the trauma-body connection: why your nervous system keeps reacting even when life feels safe. Why trauma often begins with disconnection from the body - and how that disconnection shapes anxiety, shutdown, and chronic tension. Why you can’t simply “move on”: how trauma keeps your body stuck in fight, flight, freeze, or collapse, even years later. Exercise with Gabor Maté: a simple body-based practice to reconnect with yourself and create inner safety. Q&A with Gabor Maté 
Trauma, Dissociation, and the Body: Why You Shut Down (and How to Come Back)
With FRANK ANDERSON
Why trauma creates dissociation: how the mind and body disconnect as a survival strategy. The parts of you that take over: what IFS reveals about anxiety, numbness, people-pleasing, and self-sabotage. How trauma shows up physically: fatigue, tension, chronic stress, panic, shutdown, and why it’s not “in your head. Why your symptoms are actually protectors: how your body reactions are driven by parts of you trying to keep you safe. Practice with Frank Anderson: a guided exercise to identify the part of you that triggers anxiety, numbness, or control, and reconnect with your body safely. Q&A with Frank Anderson When the past still lives inside you… even years later
Trauma doesn’t always look the way people imagine.
It doesn’t always come with clear memories, dramatic events, or something you can easily explain.
Most of the time, it hides in your everyday life.
In your reactions, in your body, in the way you experience stress, relationships… and even moments that should feel good.
Maybe you recognize yourself here:
- You overreact… or shut down completely, without understanding why
- You keep repeating the same patterns, even when you know they’re unhealthy
- You feel tense, anxious, or overwhelmed more often than you’d like
- You struggle to relax, as if your body never got the message that the danger is over
- You crave connection… but something inside pushes people away when things get close
- You feel constantly tired, on edge, or emotionally drained
- You carry shame, guilt, or a feeling of not being “enough” that won’t go away
- You’ve done therapy, read books, worked on yourself… but something still won’t shift
- And sometimes, just when things start to get better… everything falls apart again
If this feels familiar, it’s not a lack of willpower.
And it’s not who you are.
It’s often what trauma leaves behind.
Not just in your memories…
but in your nervous system, your body, and the patterns that now run automatically.
This is why insight alone is not enough.
And why “trying harder” doesn’t work.
Because what you’re dealing with isn’t just psychological.
It’s physiological.
And until your nervous system feels safe again…
it will keep pulling you back into the same cycles.
That’s exactly what you’ll begin to understand during Healing Days.
Over 5 online sessions, with world-renowned experts like Gabor Maté, Bessel van der Kolk, Tim Fletcher, Marisa Peer and Frank Anderson,
you’ll discover why your mind, body, and emotions react the way they do…
And what needs to change - not by force, but by finally working with what’s happening inside you, instead of fighting against it.
Your experts
Gabor Maté
Dr. Gabor Maté is a Hungarian-Canadian physician, author, and speaker renowned for his work on addiction, trauma, stress, and childhood development.
Born in 1944 during the Holocaust, his early experiences of trauma shaped his perspective on the mind-body connection and the impact of early childhood stress on lifelong health.
Gabor worked as a family physician and later in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, providing compassionate care to marginalized populations struggling with addiction and chronic illness. He redefines addiction as a response to emotional pain and emphasizes the link between unresolved trauma and physical or mental health issues. His bestselling books, including In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and When the Body Says No, explore these themes and advocate for holistic healing.
A sought-after speaker, Gabor Maté inspires a compassionate understanding of health and well-being, addressing root causes rather than symptoms.
Though retired from medical practice, he continues to influence global conversations on trauma and recovery.
Bessel van der Kolk
Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk is one of the world’s leading experts on trauma.
For over 40 years, he’s helped people heal from post-traumatic stress disorder, emotional wounds, and the hidden scars of the past.
A pioneer in body-centered therapy, Dr. Van Der Kolk has dedicated his life to understanding how trauma reshapes the brain, the body, and our ability to feel safe and connected.
His groundbreaking book, The Body Keeps the Score, has transformed the way millions of people understand trauma, revealing why it isn’t “just in your head,” and how you can finally reclaim your life, your peace of mind, and your sense of self.
Marisa Peer
Marisa Peer is a world-renowned therapist with over 30 years of experience helping people overcome emotional blocks and transform their lives.
She is the creator of Rapid Transformational Therapy® (RTT®), a powerful method that combines hypnosis, psychotherapy, and neuroscience to create fast, lasting change.
Having worked with CEOs, elite athletes, and public figures around the world, Marisa is known for her ability to uncover the root cause of self-doubt and reprogram limiting beliefs.
Through her work and her “I Am Enough” movement, she has helped millions of people rebuild confidence, break free from old patterns, and reconnect with their true potential.
Tim Fletcher
Tim Fletcher is an educator and speaker specializing in complex trauma and addiction. With decades of experience working with individuals facing emotional pain and developmental trauma, he is known for making trauma clear, compassionate, and easy to understand.
He is the founder of RE/ACT (Recovery Education for Addictions and Complex Trauma), a program that helps people recognize the patterns shaped by unsafe environments and understand why those patterns once made sense.
Through his teaching, Tim has helped thousands of people move from confusion and shame to clarity, self-understanding, and lasting change.
Frank Anderson
Dr. Frank Anderson is one of the world’s leading experts on psychological trauma and dissociation. For over 30 years, he has helped people heal from post‑traumatic stress disorder, deep emotional wounds, and complex trauma.
A Harvard‑trained psychiatrist and a key figure in the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, he has dedicated his life to understanding how trauma rewires the brain, the nervous system, and our capacity to feel safe, connected, and fully alive.
Author of Transcending Trauma and To Be Loved, he has helped transform how both clinicians and the public understand trauma: why it’s not “just in your head,” and how you can reclaim your inner power, your peace, and your sense of self.
What our participants say
I have feelings of excitement, adventure and fear all wrapped up inside me as I embark on this journey with you, Gabor. But I’m also grateful for the opportunity to heal.
– Sarah M.
Through your work I finally found answers about myself and my biography after 30+ years of searching. And know I try to pass this understanding on to my patients every day.
So - THANK YOU Gabor! :)
– James A.
really enjoyed this self awareness practise in doing it regular settles me.
– Zachary S.
Each one of these lessons is just amazing. Thank you Dr. Mate for doing this class, and for having the workbook and the summary slides at the end of each lesson. Clearly I'll be doing the class more than once to catch all of the teaching!
– Emma T.
The happy childhood exercise was amazing, really gave me a lot to think about as I would be in the same space as this woman shared. Amazing, hadn't thought of this series of questions before but they are very powerful.
– Campbell.
I do have access now to the Gabor Mate’s Masterclass.
Please, extend my gratitude with all the team that make this masterpiece possible.
It changed my life and I am quite sure it will do the same for too many people around the world.
– Anderson
Twenty years of therapy didn't come close to the healing I received listening! Whole parts of my personality were explained after 60 years on this glorious planet!
Oh please always remember how precious and important you are. You brought me answers to questions I didn't even know I had about why I automatically respond to others.
Do you know how important you are in my healing journey???!!
Yes, it was Dr Maté's words but I would not have received this amazing gift if not for you.
Thank you from my entire spirit and soul and mind.
Man, I love you guys!
– Taylor
I joined MentorShow last month specifically to take Dr. Gabor Maté’s course on The H.E.A.L. Method: The Breakthrough Protocol for Healing from Trauma and Transforming Your Life. It was incredibly insightful and helpful—so much so that my husband downloaded it on his own computer just to follow along with me.
We both found Gabor to be down-to-earth, compassionate, intuitive and genuinely easy to connect with. He has a way of explaining how inner trauma impacts our bodies and minds that feels both deeply personal and easy to understand. His authenticity and warmth really shine through.
I'm also looking forward to exploring other courses on the platform, which cover a range of topics—from food and health to spirituality and healing. Another great bonus: you get access to all the content for an entire year.
– Jacob S.
I experienced such insight in this exercise, that I channelled automatic writing at a very deep level of understanding. Showing me wisdom, and releasing trauma to heal. Thank you Gabor for this wonderful course and blessings to everyone participating!
– Miller
Even if I work as a psychotherapist, as a mentor, I'm learning how speak deep on me with compassion, how to follow with love my thoughts and feeling, how give that to my son too. Be here, listening to you is my gift to that little girl inside of me.
– Madison F.
Thank you to Dr. Gabor and your team and guests for a tremendously life changing Masterclass. Thank you for your time, vulnerability, compassion, generosity of words, resources, tools, book recommendations which will become part of my life moving forward.
– Sophia D.
I found this lifeline late in life. But it will have an effect on all my life anyway - because I understand much more of my whole life now. I see my family in another way, and also myself. Thanks Gabor. And I will try to remember: Do it!
– Hunter P.
How beautiful is this! The way and tone that Gabor speaks makes it easier for me to understand what lies beyond his words.
– Miller R.
My gratitude to Dr. Gabor Maté for his generosity and everyone who made this masterclass possible. Truly happy to have taken this course.
– Emily w.
So grateful to Dr. Maté for sharing his wisdom.
– Peter J.
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