Hi Daniel. I just wanted to say hello and thank you for sharing your knowledge and unique perspective on youtube. Thank you for your work! Sending hugs, brother.

Hi - I'm doing a whistleblower series on Open dialogue. Just got the first part uploaded: https://youtu.be/d4AeD34ixJo Greetings from Finland.

Everything Daniel says is on point and has helped me heal. I am forever grateful to Daniel Mackler. I wish to talk to him one day in person and just have a conversation. I really admire him.

I identify with you and love your videos. My mother is a covert narc and I'm the middle child- scapegoat. The grieving and depression have been all I've ever known. I'm working through it and recognize my trauma, and can pull away from it, unlike my sisters, which I am grateful for. One question. You speak as though you believe that *everyone* is traumatized in their childhood. Do you really believe that?

Daniel, I just happened upon one of your videos cruising YouTube. One. Next thing I know two hours have passed. Lol I don’t have the words. Which is strange for me as a maniacal writer, and overall chatterbox. You have changed my life in a span of two hours. Thank you. From the bottom of my troubled lil heart. xx ~Christy

Hi Daniel, I sincerely feel that you have hit the root of all chronic mental illness in humans i.e the flawed family system. I have looked at many therapeutic approaches last many years including cognitive, behavorial, neurolistic, energy healing etc. Most have their advantages and limitations. However your work is unique as you expose the cause of the illness. It only makes complete sense that any problem can be tackled in completeness only from the cause. However how to cure an issue that is denied and taboo in the society. We live in a time of democracy and looking at how issues have been tackled through last decades is using the force of numbers. For example in todays world women rights exist because there has been a strong lobbying from segments in the society for women rights. This was not possible possibly 100 years back. The same example can be extrapolated to many other scenarios as slavery or same sex marriages. I think society will only approve of our concern when our lobbying is strong. Parents have the privilege to be automatically given the label of "holier than cow" and "above judgement". This paradigm surely needs change in today's world. The laws of the democratic society need to accommodate the vulnerabilities of the abused child. The society needs to to be more approving of such children etc. In this perspective I wish to ask you why not start a forum wherein like minded people who have similar views can come together and discuss their experiences. It will be a starting point of such a lobby !!! bye for now Shaun

I completely agree with your ideas about grieving well being the key to recovery or what Martin Prechtel would call re-membering from trauma; literally taking apart shaking things up and putting it all back together as a new person having fully metabolized the grief. We have mostly lost the grieving process and truthfully, we hsve lost pur ability to really powerfully praise and acknowledge thise important to us especially our children and loved ones. As Martin’s Tzutujil Mayan people of Santiago Atitilan Guatemala say “grief and praise sleep together in the same bed.” His powerful talk about Grief and Praise can be heard on the internet and he hoes even more deeply into it in his beautiful book “The Smell of rain on dust: Grief and Praise.”

I'm writing a book. It's my only option to deal with the topic of your YouTube video, “Sexual Abuse of Sons by Mothers” as I've found no other way to resolve it in my life. Both my biological mother continues with her version of inappropriateness and blames both me and my ‘inner child’ for it, and my stepmom simply hates boys. She grew up with only sisters. Kids can be taught hate, that much we can all agree on. However, I can't imagine how her childhood went wrong. I believe it was her mother who was abusive, as I've known both parents when they were alive and witnessed very angry and aggressive abuse mother to father - who was one of the nicest and kindest men I've ever known. He had no hate in his soul. With my biological mother, her mother was extremely abusive. So, in my case, I believe both moms had abusive mothers, and they really have their own unreconciled issues for which I've taken my experiences to the level of psychiatric help and my psychiatrist broke down and cried. Alas, I found another dead end in coping with my issues. I'm 53. I have a couple close friends that have both told me, they can see how my life suffers from abuse, and they don't know how to help but be supportive in my efforts to overcome it. I'm writing a book. "Breaking the Cycle". This video helps validate there is actually a problem. Not a surprise to me at all, but sometimes in life validation is key to starting the healing process. Yes, there is a problem, proceed to the next step. In my book, I've also covered that this absolutely is a taboo subject. Of all the jaw-dropping reality TV talk shows I've seen in my time; nobody dare touch this. Ratings would drop off the edge because we as a society can't accept or even conceive of this to be a real issue. I once asked a random person what they thought about all this, relative to my writing - and they said this to sum up how they felt I should manage my relationship with my mom, who lives 1700 miles away: "Well, it's your mom, so you have to go (visit her)". Mothers have exactly what you are saying, a sacred - even holy - immunity. That is exactly how the abuse happens in the first place. Mothers have a LOT of power. Nobody questions it. In my case and from horrific abuse I've witnessed - any thorough questions would have resulted in incarceration. It was that bad. I don't want to ever talk about it because it would resurrect pain for my siblings that is greater than we can bear. But no one asked a single question with severe brutal injuries and in conditions of filth worse than most can even imagine. If it's the only scenario that ever happened in human history, I for one saw it firsthand at the age of 7. No matter what logic tells me, I feel so guilty I did not stop it. I could have been murdered for interfering but if I could go back, I would take that chance without hesitation. End this nightmare and what I saw my brother go thru? How about this is how I feel.... GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH. So yeah, it's a real issue in my life. Try the story of my life. So far, the effects have yet to cease, and hard as I try to be "normal", it resurrects itself in many unexpected ways because nobody knows what happens next - because we simply don't talk about this. So, I'm writing a book.

Hi Daniel! First I would like to thank you immensely for your material on self therapy it has helped me to discover a painful truth about my past. I was sexually abused as a child by my father. Now that one is aware of ones trauma and can try to choose different actions aren't this actions also a reaction to the past?I feel like when I was unaware I was acting out past experiences on an autopilot now that I'm aware I still in a sense am controlled by the past experiences. So do you even have a free choice?If I am aware that I self abuse or reenact because I was abused than if choosing not to abuse also is a programming due to the past?Or is this a form of self sabotage? Hope it makes since it is really hard for me to put it in words. All the best!Love and healing from Sweden.

I am new to this site and to your methods of healing. I have dealt with depression all my many years . Now , at 85, after many forms of counseling and therapy, I have found that works best for me is the practice of stepping out of my suppositions and usually corrosive thought processes and seeking another reality than the one that causes me to be despondent and suicidal. There is a reality beyond the one we create for ourselves that strives to justify depression and binds one to the constant task of "licking the wounds" . I realize that is a work that is always in progress and that I must revisit the methods that keep me somewhat "sane" I will try to attend some of your talks in Cincinnati , though the movie on certain drugs does not interest me as I have liberated myself from all and any medication for depression and have never had to deal with psychotic problems.

Hi Daniel, I follow you regularly on youTube, and I have seen a couple of your films. I have been attempting (for the past decade) to advocate for healing options that do not involve coercion, humiliation, or use of medication to "control" another person. Thank you for your inspiring work -- which I also find to be an accurate presentation of what often occurs in our mental health system (at least in the U.S.). I am currently licensed as a mental health counselor, but I am far from satisfied with the general direction of "mental health" (whatever that really means??) treatment. I would love to have a conversation with you some time about some work that I am doing in Utah. Thanks again!

I just watched Open Dialogues and Healing Homes. USA life seems so fake now. Authenticity, common sense and humanness is out of the window. Your work is transcendent Daniel. Thank you.

thank you Daniel.

Dear... I looked at your video and was fascinated that there is a way to help sick people without medication. My son has always wanted it and has always refused medication. How could I get the addresses of such families? Is this also possible for German? Unfortunately in Germany there is no such wonderful foundation and my son is now suffering from medication. Please help me! Sincerely, Mila Luther