Connor BeatonFound of ManTalks | Empowering Men to Build Better Lives, Relationships, and Minds

Healing The Boy Inside

1 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Connor Beaton explains why childhood trauma lives in your body, not just your mind. A listener felt their shoulder blades roll back during a session, and Beaton connects that to how kids with hostile parents store memories as physical sensations instead of images. He suggests recalling specific moments like playing outside to access those embodied memories.

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My shoulder blades feel like they rolled back into better posture. They're not tense a little bit in the lats, but not like it was just coming back to being grounded. Any resources or recommendations to work through that charge?
One of the things that can happen when we grow up around a parent who is very volatile and hostile, and we feel like we have to walk on eggshells constantly, it becomes hard to remember things. So your core memories just might be a little bit more experiential than vis visual. Just start to connect to that more experiential based memory of what it felt like to be around them and what you experienced. So I think that'll be a great exercise for you in doing this process. Sometimes memories pop back up. I remember, like, this feeling activated, this memory of playing outside in the backyard with my sibling, digging holes underneath the fence. Like, whatever you guys did.