HeyJaredThe Men's Mental Health Podcast
Welcome to Men's Mental Health Podcast, a podcast where I explore the intersection of masculinity and men's mental health. I'm Dr. Daniel Bates, and for the last 15 years, I counseled and researched men's mental health issues.
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Is Therapy Only For Those Who Have It All Figured Out? (opens the original)
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Do you have to be completely self-aware, emotionally articulate, and ready to open up before therapy can actually help? Absolutely not. In this episode of the Men’s Mental Health Podcast , we challenge the idea that you need to have yourself—or your problems—figured out before walking into a therapist’s office. In reality, not knowing what’s wrong, struggling to put feelings into words, or simply knowing that something isn’t working can be more than enough reason to start. We explore what therap
Woman Tries Therapy for First Time with a Male Therapist (opens the original)
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What happens when a woman sits down for therapy with a male therapist? In this episode of the Men’s Mental Health Podcast , we flip the usual conversation about gender and therapy. We often talk about what it’s like for men to work with female therapists—but what about women working with men? Gender doesn’t disappear when we enter the therapy room. Our experiences with men and women, relationships, family histories, cultural expectations, and assumptions about gender can all influence how safe w
Rebuilding Trust After Trauma: Trauma-Informed Marriage, Part 3. (opens the original)
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Trust is essential to a healthy marriage—but trauma can make trust complicated. In Part 3 of the Trauma-Informed Marriage series , we explore what it takes to rebuild trust when past trauma, painful experiences, or repeated relationship wounds make it difficult to feel emotionally safe with your partner. Trauma can teach us to protect ourselves. We may become hypervigilant, expect rejection, question our partner’s intentions, withdraw when things feel unsafe, or struggle to believe that someone
Healing After Trauma in Your Marriage: Trauma-Informed Marriage, Part 2. (opens the original)
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Trauma doesn’t stay neatly in the past. It can show up in our closest relationships—especially in marriage. In Part 2 of the Trauma-Informed Marriage series , we move from understanding how trauma affects relationships to exploring what healing can actually look like between partners. When someone has experienced trauma, conflict may feel more threatening, criticism may feel more personal, and disconnection may activate powerful emotional or physiological responses. A partner might fight, withdr
How to Create a Trauma-Informed Marriage Pt. 1 (opens the original)
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What happens when old wounds quietly show up in your marriage? In Part 1 of “How to Create a Trauma-Informed Marriage,” we explore how past experiences can shape the way we communicate, handle conflict, interpret our partner’s behavior, and respond when we feel threatened, rejected, criticized, or disconnected. Sometimes what looks like anger, defensiveness, withdrawal, or overreaction isn’t really about the argument happening right now. Our nervous systems carry histories—and those histories ca
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