If you want freedom and liberation as a man,

if you want to feel good about yourself, have confidence,

there is one dragon, one monster, one cave that you have to enter and face and confront

in order to find the freedom and the liberation that you seek.

And that dragon, that monster is pretty simple. It is the dragon of suppression. Now here's the thing.

For almost every single man, suppression is seen as something that we need to do

in order to develop strength. In fact, so much so that in my book, men's work, I wrote that we as

men in masculine culture try to develop strength through the methodology of suppression.

Suppression is the tool that most men try and deploy in order to try and develop strength.

So let's dive into this because if you want to have better psychological health,

if you want to have a better relationship with yourself

in your actual intimate relationship,

this is the key.

It's the path.

It is the way, if we could point to the way, right?

I mean, in Buddhism, they say the way that's called the way

is not the way, but as far as I can tell, this is the path. So without any further delay, let's get into it. I'm Connor Beaton. Welcome to the Man Talk Show. If you haven't already done so, don't forget to hit like or subscribe and hit the bell notification so you can get notified because, you know, you need that these days. And there's a lot of AI slop out there.

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All right.

How do we define suppression?

Why is it such a big deal?

Well, I'm going to give you the darkest version of it,

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