Ep. 13: Being a Sensitive, Empathic Male: My Experience

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today’s episode I talk about:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Loving the aggressive nature of contact sports (football, lacrosse, hockey) but feeling totally out of place in locker room.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Feeling different, isolated, misunderstood, even “broken.”</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Wishing I could just be reading a book or discussing the meaning of life… instead of experimenting with drugs or talking about messing around with girls.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The deeply disturbing impact of witnessing pain & violence and it’s visceral effect on me.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Realizing that my sensitivity was my gift and doubling down on it after a lifetime of downplaying it and not giving it the recognition it deserved.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-</span></p> <p><a href="http://benjaminmfritz.com/podcast"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Journal prompts (scroll to the bottom)</span></a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.facebook.com/groups/whytheworldneedsyoucommunity/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Why the World Needs You Facebook group</span></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.instagram.com/benjamin.m.fritz"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Ben’s Instagram</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Intro/outro music:</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jeff II - Wait For Me</span></p> <p><a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuBBSQI2XDQ"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://youtu.be/YuBBSQI2XDQ</span></a></p>