When Not to Use Your Brain

<p>What happens when a man has the bank account, the house, the title, the &quot;objectively good&quot; life, and still can&#39;t sleep past 2 a.m.? On this episode of the Men&#39;s Therapy Podcast, host Marc Azoulay talks with Megan McDonald, founder of SomaQ (Somatic Intelligence Quotient), a former high-performing healthcare executive who burned out so completely her body started sending signals her bloodwork couldn&#39;t explain.</p><p>Megan and Marc dig into why men are often the last to notice they&#39;re dysregulated, because provider culture rewards exactly the symptoms that are quietly destroying them. She walks through how she reads tension in the body (jaw clenching, shoulder tightness, chronic insomnia between 1 and 3 a.m.) as data, not drama, and introduces her NeuroSoma Axis assessment as a way to bring measurable results to work that&#39;s traditionally been dismissed as &quot;woo.&quot; Marc reframes <a href="https://menstherapy.online/podcasts/divorce-recovery-karen-mcmahon/?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=Blog&utm_campaign=Blog"><u>trauma</u></a> as &quot;conditioning&quot; to make the work land for men who reflexively reject the word trauma, and the two trade stories about how emotional release shows up physically, sometimes on a massage table, sometimes mid-breathwork, and why that&#39;s a sign of healing rather than something to be embarrassed about.</p><p>For more podcasts, blogs, and to get involved in the Men&#39;s Therapy Online Community, visit <a href="http://www.menstherapy.online"><u>www.menstherapy.online</u></a>.</p><p>Follow us on social media: <a href="https://mtr.bio/mens-therapy-online"><u>https://mtr.bio/mens-therapy-online</u></a>.</p><p><strong>Connect with Megan</strong>Website: <a href="https://www.soma-q.com/ " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.soma-q.com/ </a>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-mcdonald-serve-not-sell" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-mcdonald-serve-not-sell</a> <strong>Resources Mentioned</strong>Individual Therapy:<a href="https://menstherapy.online/?utm_source=Podcast&utm_medium=Service&utm_campaign=Individual_Therapy" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://menstherapy.online/?utm_source=Podcast&amp;utm_medium=Service&amp;utm_campaign=Individual_Therapy</a>Men’s group:<a href="https://menstherapy.online/mens-groups/?utm_source=Podcast&utm_medium=Service&utm_campaign=Mens_Groups" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://menstherapy.online/mens-groups/?utm_source=Podcast&amp;utm_medium=Service&amp;utm_campaign=Mens_Groups</a>MTO Slack:<a href="https://menstherapy.online/slack/?utm_source=Podcast&utm_medium=Slack_CTA&utm_campaign=MTO_Slack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://menstherapy.online/slack/?utm_source=Podcast&amp;utm_medium=Slack_CTA&amp;utm_campaign=MTO_Slack</a>Website:<a href="https://menstherapy.online/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://menstherapy.online/</a></p>