ManTalks Podcast · Connor Beaton

Healing Complex Trauma - A Man's Guide

·29 min·2 clips
Connor Beaton reveals how unpredictable parenting wires a child's brain for constant fear and hypervigilance.
Connor Beaton explores complex trauma in men, defining it as repeated childhood wounds from neglect or boundary violations that shape adult behaviors like people-pleasing and emotional disconnection. He provides actionable steps for healing, including body awareness, building safe relationships, and practicing regulation techniques.

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A direct, compassionate look at how old survival habits can keep shaping adult life.

This episode treats complex trauma as something that can sit quietly under adult life, showing up as trust problems, self-sabotage, strain in relationships, people pleasing, and emotional numbness.

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When you keep repeating the same relationship pattern and can’t name why.

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