Welcome to The Man Talk Show. I'm Connor Beaton, and today we are going to talk about everything you need to know about coping mechanisms.

I've tried to make this as detailed and comprehensive as possible.

And this actually comes from, I've had a lot of people reach out through Instagram and ask questions about, you know, what is a coping mechanism? Are there

good coping mechanisms? Or the bad coping mechanisms? And recently, in the shadow work program

that I released, I had a few people bring up these types of questions around coping mechanisms.

And are some of these coping mechanisms in the shadow? Are they things that, you know,

do our coping mechanisms help us better understand the shadow? And so this comes from a question

somebody said, so are coping mechanisms bad? Are they not there to help you deal with something

that otherwise you wouldn't be able to deal with? And what if you did not have any? What if you don't have

any coping mechanisms? I understand that they are a symptom to a root cause that something has

caused these coping mechanisms. Is that correct? And how do I deal with them? So let's talk a little bit

first about what a coping mechanism is. Then let's talk a little bit first about what a coping mechanism is.

Then let's talk a little bit about the good and the bad ones and how coping mechanisms

and sometimes defense mechanisms are a little bit different.

So I'll make that distinction as well.

So a coping mechanism is something that can show up in a response bit different, so I'll make that distinction as well. So a coping mechanism is something

that can show up in a response to a perceived stressful situation. So it's the bodies, it's your

internal ecosystem's response, your neurological response, physiological response, nervous systems response

to a stressful situation. So significant life events,

and again, the stressful situation can be positive or negative in our subjective perception.

So both positive and negative events in our lives can cause psychological and emotional

stress or duress. So difficult life events like going through a breakup

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