As men on the path of conscious masculinity, we need to get honest about the ways we’ve been taught to betray ourselves. This conversation digs into Nice Guy syndrome, that codependent pattern where we learn to disconnect from our bodies and our truth to keep...
I still remember the moment I realized how touch-starved I was. My body would actually go into a threat state when someone tried to hug me. Not because I didn’t want connection, I was desperate for it. But my nervous system had never been conditioned for...
There’s this paradox every man faces: the very parts of ourselves we’ve learned to hide and suppress are exactly what we need to access if we want genuine aliveness and intimacy. I had a powerful conversation on the Man Alive podcast with Shayna about...
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