Welcome to the Awakely Jake Show.

I'm your host, Jake Woodard, and it is my mission to help you break through mental barriers, gain clarity, and awaken your heart so you can live more free and fulfilled.

My intention for this show is to create a safe container so you can heal, awaken, and transform your life.

What's going on? My Soul Family. Welcome back to another episode of the Awakely Jake Show.

It's been a while since I dropped in and did one of these. I've been spending a lot of time

doing some really deep reflection of what I wanted to bring

into the world, more into the world.

And something that's recently come through that I've learned more and more about is what it means

to be a strong, masculine man.

Now, for those of you that know my story, you know that I grew up in a very broken

household, a very unsafe environment.

My nervous system felt like it was constantly being threatened.

So I was in this fight or flight mode all the time.

But I learned at a young age the misconceptions of what it means to be a strong man.

I learned that feeling anything, any emotion equals weakness.

Vulnerability equals weakness.

Any type of crying equals weakness.

So I learned to basically repress all of my feelings, all of my emotions as a quote

unquote man to show up as strong and stoic. But you know what that led me to?

Being emotionally numb, not being able to feel shit, especially when I started getting into

relationships with women. Because I was numb. I was unavailable. I had taken all of my anger, all of my sadness, and stuffed it so deep down inside of myself

that I didn't know how to feel.

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