Men are just as likely to be victims of emotional & physical abuse.

Sadly, men do face a lot of emotional & physical abuse and most of it starts as a child growing up with the family that they think are there for them. Its just that society disables men to understand when they are being abused or ever speak up about it.

I’m sure you’ve heard your parents tell your brother or someone on the street tell their son, real men don’t cry. As a result, they internalize this abuse and accept it as a normal part of their life.

They grow up thinking that as a boy, this is how I am supposed to behave and grow up. The fact is that there is no place for physical or mental abuse in a child’s life whether it is a boy or a girl. We are supposed to grow up with unconditional love, however, most parents don’t provide that.

Men that have faced such abuse growing up in their family sometimes think that this is how life is and as a result, are open to abuse from others as well. Friends talking down to them, people in the workplace treating them disrespectfully, their own spouse being overbearing. They never even think that any of this is wrong. They think this is how life is supposed to be.

Sadly, this doesn’t change unless something drastic happens in their life or they start healing their trauma.

When I found my teacher @lianashanti and her core wound programs is when I realized for myself how much abuse I have suffered throughout my childhood. Her mother wound, father wound, and narc healing programs specifically, helped me to lift this veil from my eyes, finally giving me the tools to go deep into this and really heal myself from a lifetime of trauma.

Not that my healing journey is over, but I am at a place where I can clearly see the wounds my parents inflicted on me. This was one of the most difficult, yet most powerful realizations for me. This awareness has allowed me to jump headfirst into real healing and brought me tremendous peace.