Emotional Avoidance in Modern Men - Live Coaching Session
ManTalks Podcast
Connor Beaton
4.8 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
I sit down with Scott to talk about grief, addiction, emotional suppression, and the long process of healing. We explore how unresolved pain can shape a man’s identity, relationships, and sense of self for years without him fully realizing it. Scott shares parts of his personal journey through loss, sobriety, and learning how to confront emotions he spent years avoiding. This episode is an honest discussion about masculinity, recovery, and what it actually takes to heal.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 Introduction
02:07 Scott’s Personal Journey
05:42 Living With Grief
10:52 Emotional Suppression in Men
15:18 Addiction and Numbing Pain
20:44 Learning Emotional Awareness
27:11 Masculinity and Vulnerability
33:26 The Cost of Avoidance
39:50 Recovery and Self-Reflection
46:12 Rebuilding After Loss
52:37 Healing Through Connection
58:41 Final Thoughts and Takeaways
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| 0:00.0 | All right, my friend, welcome, welcome. |
| 0:08.4 | How are you doing today? |
| 0:09.4 | I'm great. |
| 0:10.0 | How are you? |
| 0:11.1 | I'm good. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm good. |
| 0:12.7 | Thank you so much for joining me again. |
| 0:15.0 | And happy to dive back in. |
| 0:17.5 | Tell me a little bit about why you're here, where you could use some support with, what you need to address. |
| 0:25.4 | Sure. I'm here to talk about grief primarily. I had a lot of loss in my life, starting with |
| 0:32.7 | parents and then my stepdaughter's out of my life and then a sibling passing away. It's just |
| 0:42.2 | been a lot. Just that compartment of my life has been a lot. And I don't think I've processed really |
| 0:48.1 | any of it quite honestly. So I just hold it and it sort of acts as an anchor for me and I'd like to address that. |
| 0:56.6 | What have you done with all that grief? |
| 1:01.3 | I internalized it and I allowed it to take me into alcohol pretty heavily for quite a while. |
| 1:09.6 | Took me to really dark places with alcohol, and I finally decided I was done with that |
| 1:15.3 | and got sober. |
| 1:16.3 | It'll be seven years this month, but I put down the drink, but the thoughts and everything |
| 1:22.4 | are still there. |
| 1:23.4 | I haven't done enough work around the healing part of it just yet but that's in process now too |
| 1:28.5 | okay good tell me a little bit more about your grief story so |
| 1:39.0 | and hold on pause pause there for a second yeah I'll give you one more |
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