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In this episode, I share nine statements I remember telling myself before I become willing to share my deepest and darkest emotions with someone. The statements I made to myself convinced me that I was unique and no one else in the world could ever understand how much emotional pain I was in. It’s all just a lie in the end to keep me feeling isolated from help.

There were many times when I thought about harming myself was my only answer and even after considering it, I was too afraid to follow through with it because I didn’t want to put my x-wife and three boys through that level of serious trauma. So I didn’t and because I didn’t, I was compelled to do what I feared the most. Which was, talk about my most inner secrets I swore I would go to the grave with. I was in enough pain already and finally shared them all with a trustworthy person, I felt reborn.

In this episode, I use the example of a backpack that I carried with me every day and any emotional pain I had on a personal or professional level I would stuff the backpack with these emotional rocks. Over the years of countless suffering, the backpack became so overloaded with emotional rocks I never worked through, I couldn’t carry the load anymore and my knees buckled.

I hope most men can identify with this analogy because I believe we all do this. I think most men get ourselves painted into a corner where we finally have to ask for help with our emotions or we either follow through with harming ourselves. Harming yourself is NEVER a viable option, but why are so many men doing it today?

If you can identify with any of my statements I told myself when I wasn’t willing to share my internal pain with anyone, that is a good thing. It means you aren’t alone and might be willing to accept that you’ve put yourself through enough emotional pain already. Feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions and I will be sure to get back to you. More to come. I’ll see ya in there.

Keep smiling,

R-

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