by David Eshleman | Jul 21, 2023 | Building Relationship, Embracing Creativity, Exploring Life, Loving Ourselves, Men's Work, Parental Wounds, Purpose, Shame & Criticism, Suffering
“True strength, and growth, comes from going into what is uncomfortable. This is one task of the masculine principle.” -David Eshleman Are you a man carrying the “grief of women?” Maybe you hold an internalized sense of shame, guilt...
by David Eshleman | Jul 21, 2023 | Complex Trauma, Rejection
“To be betrayed/abandoned/rejected is a deep – and one of the worst – soul woundings we can get”. -David Eshleman It’s part of the human experience to encounter moments of rejection, betrayal, and abandonment. However, when...
by David Eshleman | Jul 21, 2023 | Living in Duality, Suffering
“Only a Sith deals in absolutes.” – George Lucas Duality. The idea of all or nothing thinking, good and bad, black and white, yes and no, winners and losers. The zero-sum game. A great deal of human suffering comes from this thinking....
by David Eshleman | Jul 21, 2023 | Parental Wounds
“Time to write my own f***ing story.” Maeve (West World) Many of us have gone through a deep sense of wounding. Maybe a recurring childhood experience left us wounded, questioning how life could be good, how could the universe be such a bad place? This deep wounding...
by David Eshleman | Jul 21, 2023 | Shame & Criticism, Suffering
As Robert Bly said, the antidote to shame is to get closer to the wildman or wildwoman inside us. To grow up in a shame family, where the value taught was to be afraid, to be put down, less than, is in itself a wounding. Shame can be felt, verbalized, modelled...
