Fixing Anxiety and Addiction from Childhood Confusion - Live Coaching Session
ManTalks Podcast
Connor Beaton
4.8 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
What happens when you’ve done everything right on paper but still feel disconnected, restless, and not enough? In this coaching session, I sit down with Sean as he opens up about addiction, childhood emotional neglect, self-worth, and the internal pressure that followed him into adulthood. Together, we explore how becoming a father can surface old wounds, why self-criticism often disguises itself as discipline, and what it looks like to start building trust and safety from the inside out. This conversation is about breaking inherited patterns and learning how to become the person you needed growing up.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 Introduction & Why Sean Came On
02:57 Rock Bottom, Recovery & Starting Over
09:41 Growing Up Around Conflict & Emotional Instability
13:23 Relationship With His Father
16:11 Becoming a Father & Rewriting the Legacy
17:44 The Inner Critic & Feeling Not Good Enough
20:39 Control, Trust & Self-Worth
23:17 Living With Intensity & Chronic Stress
25:15 Feeling Seen & Understanding the Need to Escape
29:16 Meeting His Younger Self
32:00 Speaking to His Parents From the Present
35:06 Leaving Childhood Behind
40:56 Fathering the Child Within
43:36 Connecting With His Future Child
49:20 Practical Tools for Building Self-Trust
52:53 Childhood Confusion & Identity Formation
56:05 Pregnancy, Job Loss & Emotional Collapse
58:37 Retraining the Inner Critic
01:03:18 Why Recognition Matters
01:05:17 Final Reflections & Closing
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| 0:00.0 | All right, my friend, welcome to the Man Talk Show. |
| 0:07.9 | How you doing, buddy? |
| 0:09.3 | I'm good. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm good, glad to be here. |
| 0:11.8 | Likewise, thank you so much for diving in. |
| 0:14.5 | I've been doing more of these coaching style sessions, you know, these like live sessions. |
| 0:20.2 | And it's really cool to see how effective they are and how helpful they can be. |
| 0:24.9 | So I appreciate you. |
| 0:26.5 | And every man that sits in the in the hot seat and gets in the arena. |
| 0:30.9 | I love it. |
| 0:32.2 | Tell me a little bit about why you are here. |
| 0:35.5 | What pulled you here? |
| 0:36.3 | What are you wanting to address or |
| 0:39.0 | resolve or confront? Yeah, kind of several things. I think going back to last year, it's been, |
| 0:50.8 | you know, the last nine to 12 months have been one of a lot of transformation, a lot of ups and downs |
| 0:57.6 | hit what I would call kind of a rock bottom last summer, a combination of struggling with |
| 1:04.4 | addiction, unresolved, anger, resentment, attachment trauma from childhood, and all that certainly created a lot of |
| 1:14.4 | issues in my marriage. |
| 1:16.4 | Thankfully, in a much better place today, you know, my wife and I have a great relationship, |
| 1:23.5 | a lot of that's due to some of the work that I've done and certainly hurt patients, |
| 1:28.7 | extreme patience, loyalty, and just commitment to us as a unit. So, you know, very fortunate |
| 1:35.8 | that, you know, things could have gone south there pretty quickly and, you know, fast forward |
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