Excerpt from a YouTube podcast discussing men, vulnerability, and shadow work. Two speakers reflect on cultural teachings of male self-sufficiency, how insecurity and fear manifest in relationships, and the value of turning toward and integrating one’s 'dark' or rejected parts to heal and show up more authentically.
Like it's easier for a man to say fuck you than it is to.
Say I'm hurt.
We often been taught.
As men to be very.
Self sufficient and so there's this notion that we should have it all figured out we should know exactly what.
We want there's.
Not a lot of room for a.
Man to say I actually have no.
Frickin.
Clue what I want in a woman and so by.
Starting to pay.
Attention to who you are as a.
Man and what starts to show up.
In a relationship.
Your insecurities your sabotage you know you becoming needy and all that bullshit that starts to bubble up to the surf there's merit in understanding your own darkness because your darkness is still you your insecurities your inferiorities what you don't want other people to know about you so when you start to turn towards your fears your insecurities your doubts there's a chance that you're able to not only understand those parts of you but welcome them back into your inner kingdom because.