All right, welcome to The Man Talk Show. I'm Connor Beaton. And today we're going to talk about

mental health month. And I'm going to dive into the topic of developing rigorous self-approval

and compassion. This month is, again, it's mental health month, and that's really important to me.

It's kind of a big deal.

Basically, what I do is run a mental health company for men, essentially, although we sort of do more than that, but at its core, at its root, what we are focused in on is developing more self-led men. And how we do that is by nurturing the proverbial garden within us, the sanctuary, the training grounds, the practice gym, the octagon within so that we can go five rounds with ourselves and sort of win the battle rather than getting our ass kicked by the part of us that would like to drag us down

into the depths of despair, into the depths of failure, into the depths of depression and

anxiety. And so this is a really important topic for me personally, but I'm going to be sharing

over the course of the month of

May the four things that really shifted and transformed my own mental health in my own

personal journey, which was a very long one and is still ongoing, right? This is still a part of

my life every single day.

This week, we're going to be talking about how to develop rigorous self-approval and compassion.

And there's a reason why that's so important.

For me, one of the biggest challenges that I faced at the very beginning of this journey,

and one of the biggest challenges that I faced in my own life, when it came to my capacity and ability to be successful in my work and successful in my relationships and connected

to the people that were around me and understanding my purpose and my direction and my mission in

life. One of the biggest blockades and obstacles that I faced was that internally, even though nobody

knew it, the dialogue that I had with myself was catastrophic. It was abusive at best. It was

really detrimental. I mean, the level of self-deprecation that I experienced on a day-to-day basis

was horrendous. And so whenever I started to work on a new projectto-day basis was horrendous.

And so whenever I started to work on a new project or get into a new relationship,

there was this background noise of self-hatred, of really disliking who I was,

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