How Childhood Trauma Destroyed His Marriage

⚠️ Trigger Warning: This episode includes conversations about suicide, suicidal ideation, depression, pornography addiction, childhood trauma, emotional abuse, and divorce. Please listen at your own pace. If these topics feel overwhelming right now, it's okay to come back to this episode when you're ready.

You can spend years just getting through life, providing, showing up, going through the motions, while inside you don't feel much of anything at all. No real highs, no real lows, just a numbness you've stopped questioning. If that hits a little too close, this one's for you.

One of our Healthy Men-tality alumni, "Joey," shares his whole story here, from being abandoned as a kid and never having anything explained to him, through a 20-year marriage that ended, all the way to the lowest point of his life and what came after. About six months into doing this work, he went from completely shut down to genuinely loving himself for the first time. His kids have noticed the change. He's playing music again. And the way he tells it will probably land for a lot of people listening.

In this episode:

How decades of numbness trace back to childhood wounds and the coping mechanisms built to survive them

Why healing the inner child was the thing that unlocked everything for him

How getting curious about your own feelings becomes the engine of the work

Doing the work for yourself first, and why everyone around you benefits from that

Giving yourself grace and taking full accountability at the same time

How one regulated person can shift an entire co-parenting dynamic

If you've been numb for longer than you'd like to admit, give this one a listen.

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