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From Reaction To Resilience: Tools For Facing Life's Pains Head-On

Season #2 Episode #154

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In this episode, Mark and Joey discuss transitioning from reacting to building resilience, tackling internal pain, and confronting emotional challenges. Live listeners share their struggles with pain, uncertainty, and limbo. They delve into distinguishing between situational and internal pain, emphasizing personal growth. They explore coping mechanisms, avoidance, manipulation, and the impact of a lack of emotional nurturing. They also urge setting goals, envisioning a better future, and embodying both the warrior and poet within, encouraging men to reclaim leadership and authentic masculinity.

Episode Summary:

  • Intro to the episode. 0:03
  • Welcome to the next level of empowered AF 2.0 and what it means to be an empowered man in his most advanced form.
  • Internal pain vs external pain, internal pain.
  • Situational pain. 2:14
  • Situational pain is the situation that is causing you pain, not the situation. It's the underlying pain, the pain that is what's happening to you.
  • Separation of a wife and divorce is a situation where you're hoping to get the reps over with, but not the growth.
  • The three main ways that men deal with internal pain, and how they deal with the external pain.
  • The three ways that guys deal with external pain, avoid, manipulate and complain.
  • How do we deal with rejection? 7:31
  • The importance of having a healthy grid for dealing with rejection and how to deal with it, and how it can make us feel like a little boy.
  • How a reframe perspective can help us see the situation a little differently and more clearly.
  • A lot of guys here don't have approach goals. They have avoiding goals, which is why they stay stuck in their shame cycle.
  • Some of you have found yourself dating the same woman in a different body over the years, and it's costing you your marriage and relationship.
  • Takeaways from the training. 12:44
  • Ben shares his takeaways from today's training, including past relationships and dealing with the pain of losing his father at a young age.
  • The legacy he wants to leave for his kids.
  • The first thing is not to waste time. The second thing is to go deeper with what happy means and what it looks like for them.
  • 80% of Americans don't even set goals for themselves.
  • How to get past the pain. 17:17
  • Every good season will pass, and every bad season will come. The difference is how you show up each day and how you receive what's possible.
  • Connecting with your own future.
  • The more emotionally connected a man is to his future self, the more of a reality it becomes.
  • The cycle of crisis all of us are living in.
  • Crisis Crisis...