HeyJaredMan Down by Jason MacKenzie
These are the exact things I learned after losing my wife and daughter, and from coaching thousands of men. Every week, I break down what really happens when you get knocked on your ass and how to grow through it without losing your self-respect.
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No, I Do Know (opens the original)
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People mean well when they tell a widow she’s still young and that you never know who’s around the corner. If your marriage ended in violence and then in suicide, that advice skips the first question most women ask about any man, which is whether they’ll be safe with him.In our third conversation, and I talk about dating after loss from two very different places. She left an abusive marriage ten months before her husband died by suicide, and she’s raising two young boys on her own. I started see
Surrender is Not Submission (opens the original)
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What Loss Does to a Person that No One Talks About (opens the original)
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People have a hard enough talking about grief. It’s even harder to talk about what it’s really like, behind closed doors and in the confines of your own mind. That’s the version that not too many people want to admit. In this conversation, I sit down with Jeannie Ewing, who spent ten years writing and speaking about grief before turning her attention to motherhood and caregiving at I Grow Strong Again and Ghost Mother. Between us, we’ve lived through most of what we talk about here. We get into
1291 Days Later and I'm No Longer Scared (opens the original)
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You're Not Managing Stress. You're Managing Grief. (opens the original)
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