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The Mark Divine Show

Solving Male Depression: Men's Disconnection, Anxiety, and Suicide Crisis | Owen Marcus

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Mark Divine

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Men's well-being depends on genuine connection. Safe spaces for genuine self-expression are crucial in combating depression, anxiety, and suicide risk. Body-centered practices like mindfulness and bodywork often surpass traditional therapy in helping men process emotions. A healthy masculinity balances strength with emotional openness. Cultivating both assertiveness and vulnerability fosters better relationships and self-awareness. Holistic approaches addressing physical, emotional, and social well-being are key to stress management and personal growth.

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Owen Marcus, founder of MELD (Men's Emotional Leadership Development), is a pioneer in men's emotional wellness with nearly 30 years of experience. His work, featured in major media and embraced by corporations like Google, focuses on transforming men's lives through innovative group dynamics and emotional awareness techniques. Owen's book "Grow Up" offers a comprehensive guide to authentic living, while his methods have impacted thousands of men and trained professionals in his approach. With expertise spanning corporate management, mindfulness, and integrated medicine, Owen continues to innovate in men's emotional growth through MELD, fostering emotional leadership and personal development in men.

  • Men Need Connection: Both speakers emphasize that many men suffer from disconnection - from themselves, others, nature, and spirituality. This disconnection is the root cause of many issues, including mental health problems and suicide. Creating safe spaces for men to connect authentically with themselves and others is crucial for their overall well-being.

  • Use Somatic Awareness to Access Emotions: Engage with your body to process emotions more effectively. Practices like mindfulness, bodywork, and physiological awareness can often reach deeper than traditional talk therapy for men.

  • Redefining masculinity to include vulnerability: A new model of masculinity that integrates traditional "tough" qualities with emotional intelligence and vulnerability is imperative. Owen introduces the concept of "assertive vulnerability" as a way to balance these seemingly opposing traits.

  • Holistic Practices for Stress Management and Personal Growth: Mark and Owen discuss various practices for managing stress and promoting personal growth, including mindfulness, time in nature, bodywork, and even medical interventions like the stellate ganglion block. They emphasize the importance of addressing health from multiple angles - physical, emotional, and social.

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0:00.0

I think guys are really hurting and they're hurting because we're disconnected.

0:04.6

We're disconnected from ourselves and we're disconnected from others, we're disconnected from nature,

0:09.5

maybe we're disconnected from a creator. That's how desperate we are because we're so isolated

0:15.1

that we think we're the only ones having these problems. By offering men an

0:18.6

opportunity to come together in a group you're providing a roadmap basically to find that wholeness again.

0:25.0

What I realized years ago working with guys is I could say that to you and ask you an emotional question.

0:31.0

If you're the average guy, you'd like try to find the closest door out of the room.

0:36.3

When we can find someone that's downregulated and feels safe, we downregulate. We become more relaxed and that's what we create with these

0:44.5

men are these safe emotionally safe environments where they can start to

0:48.5

learn this because so often going all the way back to our childhood, we didn't have that.

0:53.5

Yeah, Owen, thanks so much joining me on the Mark Devine show, and thank you for being

0:58.5

here in person.

0:59.5

I really appreciate that.

1:00.5

It's my honor.

1:01.5

I'm glad I found your place. I know, it took a little while.

1:04.0

It's funny when I saw your email come through, I called the number and it actually didn't go through.

1:09.0

It just said, number not available.

1:11.0

Oh.

1:12.0

Maybe you typed in the wrong digit.

1:13.0

But anyway, I'm just like six, so that's probably the guy.

1:15.0

I walked around the corner, I just saw the one guy who was wandering, looking like he was looking

1:20.5

for something.

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