Darren Bruce on Unresolved Childhood Sexual Experiences & Emotional Vulnerability in Men

CW: This episode contains a discussion on resolving childhood sexual experiences. 

 

Darren Bruce is a connection coach who discovered the power of emotional vulnerability and relational skills after a career in the military and fitness industry. Despite operating at an incredibly high level of physical skill and intensity in his military role, Darren realized he was unable to sit down and have an honest conversation with the people that he cared about.

 

Darren talks about how it took self-sabotaging his own business to make him realize how important relational skills are, particularly the willingness to have hard conversations and to face our fears of loss and rejection.

 

Darren also shares his experience of being sexually abused as a child, how that affected his life, and how he has worked with it as an adult. And we talked about the importance of male role models and why a lack of initiation into manhood can cause men to be "dickheads".

 

Find Darren here:

Website: https://www.darrenbruce.com.au/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DarrenJohnBruce/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darrenjbruce/

 

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Audio • Luke Bowman

Music • Sexy Urban Beats by PenguinMusic 

Photo • Pete Longworth

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