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Podcast: Front Row Dads with Jon Vroman
Episode: The Advantages of Feeling More, Not Just Better with Charles Clay
Description: For a lot of men, there can be a lot of societal pressure to "man up." Bury your emotions, or look weak. The problem is, those feelings of pain don't just go away. Instead, they manifest in unhealthy and unexpected ways. And not just in the moment, but potentially years into the future. That pressure to suppress our emotions is not always obvious either. I've only recently realized that I've been subconsciously doing this for years. Instead of leaning into my emotions, I developed coping strategies: I abused alcohol… I ran ultramarathons… I we...