Breaking Free from Emotional Prison & Healing Generational Trauma | Jason Wilson EP 880

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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"Being authentic in who you are is the answer. For me, when I found my purpose in Christ, when I found my purpose in following the Most High, that really solidified me. Because you could be multifaceted, but without a purpose, you're just a busy person." - Jason Wilson In a deeply moving conversation, Jason Wilson shares his powerful journey of transformation from being what he calls a "THUG" (Traumatized Human Unable to Grieve) to becoming an emotionally whole man. Growing up in Detroit surrounded by gangs and drug dealers, Wilson spent years trapped in traditional masculine expectations, unable to express emotions beyond toughness and strength. It wasn't until his marriage began falling apart in 2015 that he was forced to confront his childhood trauma, father wound, and the generational pain that had shaped his worldview. Wilson's story takes an unexpected turn as he reveals the profound reconciliation with his father before his passing, uncovering layers of historical context about pastors, pimps, and the complex racial dynamics of Detroit's past. Through his father's workaholic lifestyle that led to Parkinson's disease and his mother's journey with trauma and eventual peace through dementia, Wilson learned vital lessons about rest, letting go, and the true meaning of success. His insights challenge conventional notions of masculinity while offering a path toward emotional and spiritual wholeness.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:09.0	So around 46, you made a decision that just being a protector and a provider was not all you wanted to do anymore. I saw it destroying my marriage.
0:23.6	Really?
0:24.6	I, uh, I lacked patients.
0:27.6	I didn't even understand emotions as far as what a woman is feeling.
0:33.6	So again, if you're, I mean, my brothers were drug dealers, you know, and I grew up in an
0:39.9	area where I'm in the middle of gangs from each mile road in Detroit. So I didn't know how to
0:47.3	express or really feel emotions outside of being tough and strong or appearing to be what we
0:54.1	would call a thug,
0:55.1	which I've made an acronym for, which is a traumatized human unable to grieve.
1:01.2	I said, this isn't living. And when me and Nicole, we were arguing our last time before we decided
1:08.2	to get a separation in 2015 so look at the time span
1:12.7	there I said I need to really dig deep into what's causing me to be this man
1:19.3	what's causing me not to embrace all of the human attributes that I've been
1:24.8	given by the most high and it was my childhood trauma it was my father wound it was the losses that I've been given by the most high. And it was my childhood trauma. It was my father
1:29.2	wound. It was the losses that I've experienced that had shaped my mind into believing
1:35.0	another loss is coming. You weren't even good enough for your father to affirm you. But upon deeper
1:42.9	reflection, I realized that I didn't have a bad father. I just had a father
1:47.2	who had been wounded and didn't go through his process. He loved me. But again, he came from an
1:53.4	era where the masculine male was the gold standard. And so until I saw the truth there,
2:00.2	before he died, we were able to reconcile, which was beautiful.
2:03.6	And he was called by God to be a pastor, but ran from it.
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