All right, team, welcome back to the man talk show.

Connor Beaton here.

And today, I'm going to be doing a man's guide to inner child work.

What actually is that?

Now, for the purpose of today's conversation, I'm going to be talking and referring to

this as fathering yourself,

fathering the boy that exists inside of you. And there's a great quote by Friedrich Nietzsche,

who said that what is hidden in the father is revealed in the son. What's hidden in the father

is revealed in the sun. And that quote is

going to be important for some of the stuff that we're going to talk about later on. But one of the

things I'll just say right here is that it's very common that the thing or the things that your

father lacked are the things that the boy in you is actually needing for you as a man

to contribute and give to him. So I'm going to say that again because it might sound a little,

like what? But I want you to write this down. I'm going to give you a question in a second.

The things that your father lacked are the things that the boy in you, the younger version of you, that younger subconscious

part of you, is looking for from you. So as an example, if your father was a flaccid wet

noodle that had zero connection to his anger, never stood up for himself, never had boundaries,

the boy in you needs you to be somebody who is able to set boundaries, who's able to say no, who's able to develop a robust spine

that can stand up for himself, that can stand up for that boy, because otherwise that boy is

going to feel like he has to do it all the time.

So that's just a bit of a context and container because sometimes inner child work doesn't

really land with a lot of men. They're like, I don't know, like inner child.

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