048 - Why men must hit rock bottom

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rock bottom is a term we usually associate with absolute destruction and utter worst-case scenarios.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s a place we have to get up from - '</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">the only way is up’ from there, as the saying goes.</span></em></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet, for many men, rock bottom isn't waking up under a bridge covered in your own shit and piss and vomit having burnt every relationship you’ve ever had. For many, it’s a very different, sometimes far more subtle, nowhere near as full-on place where simply</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">something</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">has to change.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But for so many men, we must reach our own point of rock bottom in order to make a positive forward-directed change.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If what we're suffering through isn’t as bad as we think doing something about it will be, we won’t do anything about it.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And that is what I wanted to explore in this episode.</span></p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>In this episode:</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I explore the idea of rock bottom, how we have almost romanticised it and why it takes hitting our own version of it for so many men to do something about the shit that isn’t working for us.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’ll break down some of the societal beliefs that imapct this and offer a solution for how to reframe the mindset that takes us there and how to get out of it.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I trust you will learn something from this and invite you - no,</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">challenge you</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">- to do something meaningful with this information. It needn’t be climbing the mountain in one go, as I discuss in t