We as men are taught to develop strength. And so it's the main tool that most men develop a sense of self and identities through suppression. When you do that, you're going to cut yourself off from a vast amount of emotional data and information, a good amount of truth about who you actually are. And what you're going to show the world is a kind of hollowed out

or one-dimensional version. Numbness is not an emptiness of void of emotions. So when men say,

oh, I'm numb, oh, I don't feel anything. What they're really saying is, I'm so inundated with

emotions. And no one's actually taught me how to deal with those emotions. Both man or woman, there's inherently

a mother wound that sparks the deepening of inner work. Everything that you experience in the first

18 months of your life is coming through the portal of the mother. I had this moment, the child in me

was jealous of my son. I'm actually sad. Like, I'm joyful that I'm getting to give him all

of this. But there's a part of me that's deeply sad that my son is getting the thing that I longed for

as a kid. Love is everything and truth is how it speaks. You're essentially just sharing truth,

which is love, because truth is light.

What do you think it really means right now for men to feel strong on the outside, but soft and broken and disheveled in the middle?

Why is that really the beacon that most men get to pay attention to now?

Yeah, I mean, one of the things that I wrote about in my book is this notion that we as men are taught to develop strength through suppression.

And so it's the main tool that most men develop a sense of self and identities

through suppression.

And when you do that,

you're cutting yourself off from important information and truth about who you actually are.

And so you have to kind of develop this performative persona, right? I mean, this is kind of like a, you know, modern culture right now. Have you seen

like the performative males? Have you seen this? I'm sure I have. There's like a whole bunch of

like reels and content and shit like that online of the performative male. And, you know, it's this

kind of like archetype of the guy on the train or on the bus, like reading Camus and, you know, sort of looking hipster and shit like that.

And it's more of a performance than it is an actual sense of self-identity.

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