Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Advice for fathers #fatherhood #parentingtips #consciousparenting #parenthood

2 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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Short conversation excerpt from a YouTube video (posted Oct 2, 2023) in which Josh Trent asks for advice for fathers and the other speaker advises men to honestly acknowledge buried emotional trauma and repression. Key recommendations: be honest and vulnerable about emotional suppression, practice deep self-compassion, courageously communicate repressed/split-off parts (including shamed/closeted sexuality), and recognize that men hold a great deal of pain due to mixed, damaging messages about masculinity.

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What is your advice for fathers? That came from an environment where emotional expression, emotional intelligence, understanding themselves was not allowed.
The first step is to be very honest and vulnerable about the ways that your emotional self was smashed and buried. And then to have deep self compassion and then to be brave, to talk and communicate your repression, your suppression, your split off parts, your sexuality that has been so shamed and closeted as well. We women talk a lot about our pain, but let me tell you, you men are holding a whole lot more pain because you're as confused in your capacity to be male as we have been confused in our capacity to be female. And we all have been given very wrong and mixed messages, and the male has suffered too.