Building Emotional Awareness as a Man

Welcome to the conversation. This is The Men’s Mental Health Series, and I am your host, Daryl Perry.This podcast is here to help get conversations started for men around mental and emotional health. Most of us were never taught how to talk about feelings, or even how to notice what we are feeling. But emotions do not go away just because we ignore them. They show up in our bodies, our reactions, our relationships, and our choices.In this episode, we talk about how hard it is for many men to name emotions beyond stressed, fine, angry, or frustrated. I share how most of us were never given the language for feelings, and how that makes everything feel confusing, heavy, or overwhelming.We talk about how you can feel more than one emotion at the same time. How anger often covers sadness, fear, grief, or loneliness. How excitement can look like anger. And how staying numb or distracted can feel easier than slowing down and noticing what is really happening inside.I also talk about learning emotional awareness as a skill. Something you practice. Something you build over time. Who you are today does not have to be who you stay. Your past reactions do not have to be your identity.This episode is about slowing down, paying attention, and learning how to describe what you feel so you can work with it instead of running from it.Please share this episode with anyone you think would be interested in listening to it.Visit mensmentalhealthseries.com for links to the show page on each of the major podcast directories. From there, you can subscribe and share this pod.Sign up for my emails that include journal prompts and resources connected to what we talk about on this podcast.https://yourlevelfitness.com/emailDisclaimerThis podcast is designed to get conversations started around your mental and emotional health and is not to be taken as medical advice. Please contact your medical and or mental health professional before starting any program. No one on this podcast is a mental health professional.If you are in the United States and you or someone you know is in crisis, you can call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. If you are in immediate danger, call 911 right now.