EP 440 A Giraffe Named Feelings | Dr. Jeremy Goldberg

<p>Jeremy Goldberg is back on the podcast with a book he spent five years trying not to write.</p><p><br></p><p>A Giraffe Named Feelings is a memoir about the parts of his life he spent years avoiding, numbing, or simply not knowing how to talk about.</p><p><br></p><p>We get into his parents’ divorce, his mom’s alcoholism, his own relationship with alcohol and drugs, getting cheated on, sobriety, and what happened when he finally let his parents read the stories he had written about them.</p><p><br></p><p>We also talk about writing from the wound versus writing from the scar, why abstinence became easier than moderation, and what betrayal actually takes from you beyond the relationship itself.</p><p><br></p><p>And we end with one of my favorite stories in the book: Jeremy returning to his childhood home decades later and finding his six-year-old handprint still pressed into the concrete.</p><p><br></p><p>Men, come train with us in The UNcivilized Nation:</p><p>https://www.manuncivilized.com/thenation</p><p><br></p><p>Get A Giraffe Named Feelings:</p><p>https://substack.com/home/post/p-192337555</p><p><br></p><p>CHAPTERS:</p><p><br></p><p>00:00 Jeremy Goldberg Returns</p><p>02:45 A Giraffe Named Feelings</p><p>08:38 The Book He Tried Not to Write</p><p>11:56 The Story Behind A Giraffe Named Feelings</p><p>16:39 What His Parents’ Divorce Meant at Six</p><p>22:14 Letting His Parents Read the Book</p><p>27:14 Do You Have the Right to Tell Your Story?</p><p>30:05 Why He Couldn’t Ignore the Book</p><p>37:54 Writing From the Wound vs. the Scar</p><p>42:37 Confronting His Own Substance Use</p><p>47:29 When Drinking Is Just What Everyone Does</p><p>48:14 Awareness, Acceptance, and Action</p><p>53:34 Traver on Quitting Alcohol</p><p>58:31 What Being Cheated On Does to a Man</p><p>01:02:51 What He Wishes Someone Had Told Him</p><p>01:06:07 Heartbreak as an Opportunity</p><p>01:08:54 The Grief of Losing a Future Together</p><p>01:10:28 Returning to His Childhood Home</p>