Darren spent decades sculpting a nearly perfect body, but no amount of muscle erased the shame imprinted during childhood sexual abuse. In this episode, we explore how trauma rewires the brain’s interoception system, how gym culture can reinforce unresolved wounds, and how healing requires inhabiting the body rather than managing it.

This is not a story of fitness. It’s a story of finally coming home to your body.

With you in this, Coach Thomas Break My Abuse Code™ | www.BetterMaleSurvivors.com

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Life by Your Design

Nighttime wasn’t rest for Diego—it was danger. As a child, he was sexually abused during overnight stays with family, and his body learned that darkness meant vulnerability. Decades later, he couldn’t sleep, woke with panic attacks, kept lights on, and stayed awake until sunrise “just in case.”

In this episode, we explore how nighttime trauma rewires the brain, suppresses REM sleep, reverses cortisol cycles, and creates lifelong insomnia. We walk through how Diego reclaimed safety in the dark—not by forcing sleep, but by teaching his nervous system that night no longer equals danger.

If nighttime is where your past returns, this episode is for you.

With you in this, Coach Thomas Break My Abuse Code™ | www.BetterMaleSurvivors.com

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Life by Your Design

Every man carries a story about his father — what he gave, what he withheld, and what that silence taught us about manhood. For male survivors of childhood sexual abuse, that silence often becomes a second trauma — the one that keeps the first wound from ever healing. What happens when the man you needed most couldn’t see you? In this episode, Jack shares his journey from silence and performance to presence and healing. Discover how childhood sexual abuse and father hunger intertwine — and how one man rewired the story of manhood by becoming the father he never had.

If you have questions, or you just want to share what you’re dealing with, hit send I read every message — your thoughts and your story matter here.

With you in this, Coach Thomas Break My Abuse Code™ | BetterMaleSurvivors.com

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Life by Your Design