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ManTalks Podcast

Healing Complex Trauma - A Man's Guide

ManTalks Podcast

Connor Beaton

Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.8591 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

I break down what complex trauma really is - and how it quietly shapes the way many men think, love, and connect. I share the difference between acute trauma and complex trauma, how it’s formed in childhood through neglect or inconsistency, and how these early wounds show up in adult relationships. Most importantly, I give you real, actionable tools to begin healing and reconnecting with your sense of safety and self-worth.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS

00:00 - The hidden struggle many men face

02:23 - What complex trauma really means

07:03 - How complex trauma is formed

11:34 - The telltale signs and survival patterns

17:55 - How to start healing complex trauma

20:26 - Building safety in relationships

24:11 - Learning to regulate your nervous system

27:23 - Final thoughts and Carl Jung’s reminder

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0:00.0

Over the years of working with thousands and maybe tens of thousands of men, I've noticed that

0:11.8

many of these men are struggling with a kind of hidden issue that never has really been

0:18.3

identified, whether it's they've gone to therapy, they've worked

0:21.4

to the psychologist or a coach, and yet they can't seem to create the change that they're

0:27.8

ultimately looking for. And generally, these guys come in to me, and they're still sabotaging,

0:32.6

they're still frustrated, they don't like themselves, they're dealing with relationship issues,

0:37.3

they're sort of a myriad of problems.

0:39.3

And one of the things that they report is just being so frustrated with not knowing what's wrong.

0:46.3

And this is a very common theme that I've seen in men.

0:49.3

And the reason for this is that many of these men, not all of them,

0:53.3

but many of these men are not all of them, but many of these men

0:55.2

are struggling with something called complex trauma.

0:58.6

And complex trauma is something that I don't think

1:01.0

has gotten enough airtime.

1:02.3

It's not as understood as it could be.

1:05.6

And there's fewer people that seem to be able

1:07.9

to identify this complex trauma. So complex trauma isn't something that

1:13.2

most of us talking about openly. It's not a, it doesn't mean that you're broken, doesn't mean

1:17.8

there's something fundamentally wrong with you. And it's not what you normally think about trauma,

1:23.1

right? For millions of people, complex trauma is affecting them. It's affecting how they love. It's affecting how they work. It's affecting how they see themselves, how they speak to themselves. And so today, I want to break this down into three simple parts that you as a man will be able to use, leverage, and understand to move through some of the sabotage and the challenges

1:45.6

that you've been dealing with. I'm going to break down first what complex trauma actually is

1:51.1

and define it in a very simple way for you with real examples. Second, I'm going to go into

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