Mastering Change: The Podcast Behind the Oxford Trauma Conference.
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The Pain We Carry: Trauma, Masculinity and Recovery
Friends,
This summer, I had the privilege of being a guest on Mastering Change, the podcast behind Europe's largest annually held trauma conference: the Oxford Trauma Conference.
Needless to say, being on a podcast that features names like Dr Gabor Maté was a dream come true for me; the two wonderful ladies who host the podcast—Emma Stapleton (the director of Master events) and Aramintha Jonsson (the founder and CEO)—were an absolute pleasure to talk to.
Together we discussed:
1. My own experiences of childhood trauma, the ways I once avoided difficult emotions and the transformative experiences that eventually changed my understanding of himself.
2. How unresolved pain can influence anger, relationships and destructive behaviour, and why meaningful change may require us to look beneath what someone does to understand what they have experienced.
3. The wider consequences of disconnection, including how declining community ties and growing polarisation can make it easier to project our pain onto others.
4 . How unresolved childhood experiences can shape adult behaviour
5. Why avoidance can prevent us from recognising emotional pain
6. What I learned working with vulnerable young people and men on probation
7.The relationship between trauma, masculinity, anger and violence
8. How the father–son relationship can influence identity and emotional development
10. Why connection and community matter for recovery
11. How unresolved pain can contribute to conflict and polarisation
12. What breaking cycles of trauma might look like in practice
Watch the conversation by clicking the image below.
Listen to the audio here.
If you're a man who's currently struggling with any of the issues mentioned here and feel you need someone to walk alongside you, book a free discovery session with me: https://calendly.com/georgestoimenov/discovery
Eastbourne, East Sussex United Kingdom
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