Hello Daniel! I am writing to express how much I have enjoyed your videos. You are, to my knowledge, one of the few people who emphasize grieving as a path to personal growth. I also particularly liked your video concerning Jordan Peterson. I was wondering, time permitting, (apologies if you have already spoken on the subject) if you could touch on romantic relationships in relation to what seems like an addiction to them amongst certain people? The value, if any of consciously choosing to remain single as and things of that nature! Many thanks!

Hello Daniel - I've known about your work for a while but recently it has started to mean more and more to me. I think that you would enjoy the books of Dr Dorothy Rowe, an Australian psychologist who died about 5 years ago. She was unable to get a publisher in the US I seem to remember, as her books were so anti-establishment. But they were translated into many other languages. On the UK Amazon site, here is a link to them: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dorothy-rowe/s?k=dorothy+rowe One book she co-wrote with Peter Breggin. Anyway, have a good 2024! xx

hi Daniel, I found your videos on New Year's Day and I felt, for the first time in my life, that I finally found a voice that resonates with my experience and thoughts about childhood trauma. It's given me courage to trust myself more as I continue to figure out self-healing, adulthood, relationships while trying my best to live as a better person and to have a better life. I'm now in the midst of reading your book and it's provided so much clarity. Thanks for your work, it's really helpful for those of us who are working hard to heal and be better people in this world.

I have been watching you for a very long time ... and I could help but laugh out loud while watching the video you made about being "Tea Bagged" ... I won't go for so far as to make any hard and fast rules about what to eat or drink in the morning, but apparently being "Tea Bagged" in the morning, doesn't always work for you?

Hi Daniel, You speak the truth. Thank you. I’m wondering if you can help me. I’m an MFT student and am seeing what you saw. I’m not sure what to do. I’m seeing a lot of gaslighting and manipulation. Thank you for being courageous.

I have done THERAPY and Daniels TALKS are turning out to be the best I have ever had ! .......... Leaves you with no more Questions !!! * REAL Human SHARING his experiences & knowledge GOOD WORK ! Must be rewarding now !

Thank you for your words @ youtube.... I am convinced....that we become different person's due to trauma & grief....but do not process these 'emotions' correctly, perhaps due to ignorance, & being empathetic....learning to relearn to love oneself is an wkwardd lesson for sure! Most necessary and very liberating i.e being light.....as a butterfly 🦋!

Hello Daniel, as I do not often pronounce myself on the internet through phrases and words. Your existence has made my journey overcome the harsher aspects of this “thing” we call life. Much love. Much respect. Initiatives that I was not aware of dwelling in the deep pit of my capsule. My outlook on living has drastically changed for the best. Your channel Has helped me take my Intensive thoughts turned into reality. A reality of trauma. Traumatic experiences that I myself and my surrounding peers evolving into who I am now forward. had been shoved deep down as This is the turning point. To perhaps open my soul and internally broaden myself.

Wow...I am also a former therapist in NYC and I'm so glad I'm not the only one who saw the truth of the system and got the hell out. Keep doing what you're doing.

Hi, Self help therapy it is a great tool for people who are willing to take a step and heal themselves from trauma. I was wandering, how childhood trauma can be processed and healed, in a deaf and mute, individual with leaning difficulties/autism and depression? This is a challenge for those individuals and the therapist right?

Thank you for the work you do and the insights you post. It’s a good treasure trove of information and the way present your information is in a very calm, polite, and organized way.

Hi Daniel, I find your vídeos on YouTube very insightful and want to thank you for them! Sometimes I find myself wondering what you would say about certain topics since I quite trust your opinion. I recently stumbled upon Internal Family Systems and have been doing a deep dive into that therapy modality. I truly feel it’s a therapy that could help everyone heal from all kinds of traumas (especially those rooted in childhood). Any insight you could share on this topic would be greatly appreciated! Thanks again for the work you do.

Hello, I'm a mum of a child who has experienced trauma at a daycare as a baby. Luckily I am a very astute parent and I knew straight away and withdrew. A few years later he was traumatised again, at school and I'm now home educating. I've got no help. Trauma informed classes seem to be for professionals coming into contact with children but not for mums trying to help their own children and protect them from so called professionals. I've watched some of your videos tonight and I really hope you can help. I totally agree with your points on eary childhood trauma and I'm determined to support my son but I can see the 'residual' damage these horrible abusers have put on him, Inc a lack of healthy appetite (need to control?) making him slimmer than he would normally be. I have important questions about my sons development and what a horrible woman did to him when he was 18months old and no one to ask! Can you help?!

Hi Daniel, I was a victim of child sexual, physical and emotional abuse, mostly by my mother, i.e. mother on daughter incest - violent rapes. My mother wasn't a victim of child sexual abuse herself, instead she started sexually assaulting younger children when she was 9 if not younger. She was a grandiose narcissist and according to several of my doctors who have met her, more of a psychopath than a sociopath. She was also very religious (she nearly became a nun) and 'respectable'. Being born into the upper class (French aristocrats) helped, even though her family were not that wealthy. The physical abuse started before I was born (attempts at inducing a miscarriage), she took drugs (benzos, opiates, tricyclic antidepressants - the level of opiates she takes is just as bad as if she was injecting heroin) throughout the time she was pregnant with me and as a result I was born by C section 3 weeks early and spent the first 2 weeks in an incubator, being weaned off the drugs, while she was demanding more opiates for heself and saying that I should be put down. When she saw me for the first time, she said 'It looks like a rat!' (I had lanugo) and turned towards the wall. I went home with her after 2 weeks, then the social services (who had been alerted by the hospital) found out that I wasn't being fed, my nappy wasn't being changed, and I'd lost weight since my release from hospital, so they forced my father to hire a nurse (they coulndn't get my mother to sign adoption papers to give me away and were too cash strapped to take her to court to put me into foster care), the nanny found me unconscious in my cot when she arrived and called an ambulance, I had brain trauma (probably from shaken baby syndrome) and had to have surgery to relieve the pressure on my brain. I then went back 'home' but the nanny protected me against my mother until I was 3... when, again, the nanny, the neighbours, the kindergarten teachers and the other kids' parents had to contact the social services to force my mother to let me see a doctor (I had lost the sight in one eye. Thankfully I only needed glasses). My mother then moved to a differnet part of France, I lost my nanny, and the sexual abuse started a couple of weeks later. I actually distinctly remember the first time she raped me. My mother also liked suffocating and strangling me, stabbing me, mostly with sewing needles, burning me etc. She gleefully told me numerous times how she tried to suffocate me when I was an infant. I am now in my late 40s, went no contact with my mother when I was 25, and moved to a differnet country in my 30s. My father was non existent (just a sperm donor) and the rest of the family were no help, and I've never dated, I am quite a loner. I have found Pete Wlaker's book extremely helpful, as well as Dr Judith Hermann's book, and Andrea Dworkin's books and talks (I attract pimps and narcissists and have been offered jobs in the prostitution/porn industry throughout my life, though mostly when I was in my 20s). Just now, in the UK, a nurse, Lucy Letby, has been convicted of torturing and killing babies on the nenoatal unit where she worked. Her victims were premature babies or twins, 2 of them were triplets (the third triplet survived because his parents demanded that he be transferred to amother hospital). Several of her victims, who survived, suffered permanent brain damage and will never be able to live a normal life, at least one of them requries 24/7 care,she is tetraplegic and has cerebral palsy. Some of the babies she targeted were only 1 or 2 days old, some of them had been on the unit for a while, and were about to go home. The nurse enjoyed trying to 'save' the babies after they had collapsed, a fairly typical case of Munchhausen by proxy (which my mother also had. She diagnosed me with brain tumour, leukaemia, brain tumour and rapidly progressing MS when I was only 8, etc.) The case has made me very jittery and has caused flashbacks. I could have fallen victim to someone like Lucy during any of my stays in hospital during the first 3 years of my life, and of course, my mother was very much like her: superficially charming, butter melts in her mouth, good Christian etc. If you could make a video around the subject, it would help me. I have already listened to Dr Todd Grande's, which helped a little. I guess that one of the ways I am going to manage this grief, fear and anger is by militating for an independent ombudsman/regulator to be creasted, so that patients and whistleblowers have someone to take their concerns to. Sorry for the long post and best wishes!

I listened to your story about trauma and grief or grieving. For me when I listen to your talk of self actualization .. it actually seems that the crying is a from of compassion for the wounded part. A form of nurturing of acknowledging the inner you. For me that is different grieving. Grieving for me is an expression of loss … for someone who is not there as in a death. In which the grief contracts the heart not allowing the person the experience expansiveness of their energetic which would allow them to experience where the soul is rather than where they are not. So perhaps the dissociation of your true self which was healed through crying was a way to open your wounded contracted heart with with compassion. Which represents an evolution and associated expansiveness in the recognition of realization your true nature of .