Trusting Yourself Again After Trauma - Coaching Session
ManTalks Podcast
Connor Beaton
4.8 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
I sit down with Josh to unpack the deep-rooted patterns driving his self-doubt and anxiety in a new relationship. What begins as uncertainty about love quickly reveals unresolved grief, childhood trauma, and a lingering sense of guilt around his mother’s passing. Together, we explore how past experiences shape our ability to trust ourselves and make decisions. This is a powerful look at what it takes to move from rumination and fear toward self-trust and emotional freedom.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 - Opening The Conversation
01:00 - New Relationship, Old Doubts
02:00 - Marriage Breakdown And Mental Health
05:00 - First Panic Attacks And Early Trauma
10:00 - Losing His Mother
18:00 - Grief Comes To The Surface
23:00 - What He Misses Most
29:00 - Guilt And Self-Blame
33:00 - Can You Forgive Yourself?
36:00 - Fear Of Making The Wrong Choice
42:00 - Why Good Relationships Feel Unsafe
44:30 - Rebuilding Trust In Yourself
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| 0:00.0 | All right, my friend, welcome to the show. |
| 0:07.0 | How are you doing today? |
| 0:08.0 | Good, Connor. |
| 0:08.9 | How are you? |
| 0:09.8 | Good, man. |
| 0:10.8 | Good. |
| 0:11.8 | How are you feeling coming into this conversation knowing that we're going to dig in a little |
| 0:14.7 | bit? |
| 0:15.7 | You're ready? |
| 0:16.7 | Yeah, I'm excited. |
| 0:17.7 | Good. |
| 0:18.7 | Yeah, excited. |
| 0:20.2 | I know. Usually guys are like, I'm really excited. And then by the end, they're like, holy crap. Not to, not to like pressurize your system or anything. I'm just messing around. Tell me a little bit about what you are here to work with, what you want to address, what you want to try and make sense of, confront, resolve, whichever one of those |
| 0:37.8 | feels the most aligned for you. Yeah, my primary focus is addressing sort of uncertainty and |
| 0:51.7 | getting comfortable with not knowing what's going to happen or the outcome |
| 0:57.7 | of situations and in particular a relationship that I've recently started. |
| 1:06.3 | Okay. So give me a little bit of context. So you have a new relationship. |
| 1:17.9 | And before we were, you know, we hit record and jumped on, you said that you were married for 10 years or you were together for 10 years and married for five? Together for 10, married for five. We separated about a year and a half ago. And I've been seeing someone for eight months now, |
| 1:27.8 | and it's my first serious kind of relationship after my long, my marriage. |
| 1:36.7 | And it's going, things are going great. |
| 1:39.5 | Like there's not that I can think of anything wrong with her or the relationship. |
| 1:47.0 | It's just my own kind of internal monologue surrounding it and the little bit of doubt that's still lingering. |
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