Ask Anna - I struggle in groups of fellow men
The Therapy Edit
Anna Mathur
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Together Anna and Zak tackle the following connundrum:
" I really struggle in groups of fellow men. I'm a heterosexual male, comfortable in my own skin, reasonably successful professionally and with a happy marriage but I find myself shrinking away from male friendship groups as I feel inferior and as a result I've pushed lots of friends away and now have no social life."
About Zak
Zak who was born and raised in the rugged beauty of Moab, where the Colorado River was more than just a backdrop—it was a way of life. Growing up to river guide parents and after spending over a decade as a river guide himself, Zak developed a deep connection with nature and a unique understanding of its power to heal and transform.
With a master's degree in marriage and family therapy and a thriving career as a therapist, also a certified yoga instructor and personal trainer, Zak’s true focus lies in leveraging the natural environment as a powerful tool for personal growth and holistic healing." Zak combined this rich experience with a passion for health and wellness to “Get Outside Together,” an outdoor recreation company, Zak uses the outdoors as a therapeutic approach to help individuals and groups heal, grow, and reconnect with themselves and the world around them.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Therapy Edit is sponsored by M&S Food and their new Brainball. |
| 0:05.7 | The perfect snack for anyone with a brain. |
| 0:09.4 | Welcome to The Therapy Edit. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm your host, Psychotherapist and author Anna Martha. |
| 0:14.3 | I will be bringing you bite-sized episodes twice a week full of tips, wise words from expert guests and insights to support your mental |
| 0:22.8 | wellbeing. |
| 0:26.4 | Hi everyone, welcome to an Ask our episode of The Therapy Edit where each week I invite an expert |
| 0:33.3 | guest to come and answer one of your questions. And today with me, I have got Zach Haslitt. |
| 0:41.3 | I've only just recently discovered Zach, actually. It was through Hannah Barrett's account, |
| 0:45.3 | Zach. I think I've seen you kind of on a reel and then I've been just, you know, when you end up |
| 0:50.7 | just kind of just scrolling through and immersing yourself and someone's words and work. |
| 0:55.8 | And I'm just, yeah, sad I didn't discover your page and passions earlier, but you are passionate |
| 1:01.2 | about leveraging the natural environment as a powerful tool for personal growth and holistic |
| 1:07.4 | healing. And you combine this rich experience of life outdoors with a passion for health |
| 1:12.6 | and wellness to get outside together. And that is your outdoor recreation company. And Zach uses |
| 1:18.4 | the outdoors as a therapeutic approach to help individuals and groups heal, grow and reconnect with |
| 1:24.1 | themselves and the world around them. So, Zach, sounds like you spend a lot of your time outdoors. |
| 1:30.6 | Oh, a fair bit. I think the majority of my life. I mean, I grew up outdoors. My parents were river |
| 1:37.4 | rafting guides. And so as a child, I would go to work with them sometimes and float down the |
| 1:43.9 | river with random people from |
| 1:45.9 | all over the world. And so I kind of growing up in that environment, I realized how much it |
| 1:51.4 | changed people from like day one of a five-day river trip to the last day, how much they were |
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