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INPOD-13: Chronic Stress to Optimal Stress

But chronic stress, which is constant and persists over an extended period of time, can be debilitating and overwhelming. Chronic stress can affect both our physical and psychological

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INPOD-12: Hiding Sexual Trauma Behind High Productivity

Not only is an incessant drive towards productivity likely to create stress and anxiety, but it may also be preventing you from facing your emotional demons, maybe it's the childhood sexual abuse driving productivity. 

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INPOD-06: Q and A Recovery

When it comes to sexual assault, abuse, and harassment, men are taught to not identify as victims. Men tend to be taught to suppress emotions, avoid

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INPOD-05: People Pleasing Tapping into my Abuse

The people-pleasing or compliance patterning response is usually demonstrated by people who have been exposed to repeated traumatic events, as opposed to a one-time

MGZ-15: Right or Privilege?

These men, who became friends, comrades, and fellow sojourners through the darkness, modeled to me each week a new definition of what it was to be male and strong. In one moment, I

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MGZ-14: Taking sides: Abuse in the family

Toxic triangulation occurs when someone attempts to get other people to side with them instead of you. It can feel as

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MGZ-13: Coping with the Effects of Abuse and Striving for a Different Life

This means that the troubling and painful feelings, behaviors and thoughts people experience are a legacy of the manipulation, control, betrayal and physical assault that occurs

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MGZ-12: Don't Touch Me!

Guys constantly want sex, or so we've been conditioned to believe. If this sounds like you, it may be a case of sexual aversion. Another way to think of it is your body's intense response to sexual anxiety.

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MGZ-11: Therapies Used on the Journey : Hypnosis

Stress and anxiety, especially before medical or dental procedures; panic attacks; and post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD).

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MGZ-10: That's What Champions Do

It was scary; I was afraid of judgement most of all. I had feelings of guilt, and I struggled with self esteem and trying to hide my story.”

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MGZ-09: Was It My Fault

I used to ponder if being sexually abused by men as a child contributed to my being gay. So, I will share with you my experience and belief. Sexuality is a highly complex subject for many male survivors.

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ART-08: Life of Being Married to a Male Survivor

I had to get used to the idea of my husband sleeping with a weapon next to the bed stand.