Healing involves rewriting past stories and embracing vulnerability.
Individual work is essential in relationships for personal growth and understanding.
Successful relationships require active choices, inner work, and shared values.
Deep dives
Healing Past Trauma and Emotions
The podcast episode explores the journey of healing past trauma and stored emotions. The speaker shares their realization of anxiety and the importance of paying attention to one's mental and emotional well-being. They also discuss how sharing personal stories can help others feel less alone and the impact of early sexual experiences on their self-image and neuro pathways. The process of healing involves self-love, listening to one's body and soul, and understanding the effects of conditioning and societal expectations.
The Healing Journey in Relationships
The podcast episode delves into the importance of doing individual work in relationships. The speaker emphasizes that it is not the partner's responsibility to fix or heal oneself. Both partners need to engage in self-activism and personal growth. Empathy and compassion play a crucial role in understanding each other's struggles and acknowledging the different experiences and pressures faced in the relationship. The speaker also highlights the significance of enjoying the relationship, making time for fun, and finding moments of silence and connection.
Lessons for Successful and Thriving Relationships
The podcast episode shares valuable insights about successful relationships. It emphasizes that love is a choice and an action, rather than just a feeling. Both partners need to actively choose to love each other, even during challenging times. The speaker encourages doing one's own inner work, excavating past wounds, and pushing through discomfort. Understanding and validating each other's needs, as well as finding common building blocks like communication, empathy, and shared values, are essential for fostering a thriving relationship.
The Importance of Love and the Necessary Ingredients for a Healthy Marriage
Love alone is not enough to sustain a marriage or relationship. It requires work, reciprocation, safety, honesty, and communication to truly thrive. Putting God in the middle can also strengthen a marriage, creating a third entity that is aligned with a greater purpose. Love is both essential and everything, but it also requires continuous effort and healing.
The Journey to Self-Love and Overcoming the Inner Critic
Self-love is a daily practice that involves acknowledging and accepting oneself without judgment. Healing from past wounds and learning to love the inner critic, which is often rooted in unmet needs, are crucial steps. Embracing vulnerability and having compassion for oneself are key aspects of self-love. It's important for parents, especially mothers, to create a safe space for boys to embrace their sensitivity and develop into kind and strong men. Strength and sensitivity are not mutually exclusive, and vulnerability should be encouraged and valued in relationships.
Justin Baldoni is an actor, filmmaker and changemaker whose efforts are focused on creating impactful media and entertainment. Baldoni is the co-founder of Wayfarer Studios which aims to create purpose-driven, multi-platform film and television productions that elevate and speak to the human spirit. He’s well-known for his starring role as “Rafael” on the CW’s Jane the Virgin, but since that time has moved more behind the camera with such films as Clouds and Five Feet Apart among his directing and producing credits. He penned the 2021 book “Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity,” and co-hosts The Man Enough Podcast with Liz Plank and Jamey Heath which investigates the nuances of masculinity on a weekly basis.