Safe Place For Male Survivors Podcast

Episode 27: The Message of Emotions

Thomas celebrates the success of another survivor becoming a thriver.  He shares pieces of the course this new thriver reported helped him most the "Message of emotions". www.safeplaceformen.com 

 

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Episode 23: Help Me Understand Male Survivors: Trauma misconceptions

Spouse of male survivor uttered the words, "Shouldn't you be over that by now!" Thomas discusses a few  common misconceptions about trauma to help those who love male survivors to better understand and cope with many of the issues that come with the territory.  www.safeplaceformen.com 

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Episode 22: Help Me Understand 2: I Love a Male Survivor of Sexual Abuse -Porn & Female perpetrators

Continuing the "Help Me Understand" series, Thomas is asked about porn addictions, and help to understand male survivors who are abused by females.  He discusses his own experience and stigma male survivors might live with being abused by female perpetrators. www.safeplaceformen.com 

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Episode 21: Help Me Understand: I Love a Male Survivor of Sexual Abuse

Asked the question from a listener, Thomas candidly talks to those spouses, partners, family, significant others who love and are part of a male survivor's life, but might be confused or can't understand some of the issues they face.  www.safeplaceformen.com 

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Episode 20: Male Survivors building emotional resilience during these times

Thomas shares how he had to flex his emotional resilience muscle this weekend to confront some issues. He discusses steps that can help survivors of sexual abuse become more resilient.  www.safeplaceformen.com 

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Episode 19: Corona: Quarantined Into Abusive Surroundings

Sometimes being quarantine brings out good and bad in others. Thomas discusses how our past sexual abuse history and trauma might make us more susceptible to unconscious patterns of building relationships with abusive individuals or groups.   www.safeplaceformen.com

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Episode 18: Coronavirus Fireside Chat for Male Survivors

Extra time on your hands? Are living close quarters starting to reveal dysfunctional habits you've avoided addressing?  Thomas follows-up after the coronavirus "How You Doing?" call from last night.  He provides a little advice for some issues survivors are experiencing.  www.safeplaceformen.com 

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Episode 16: Ways family re-victimize abuse survivors

Thomas discusses takeaways from a coaching session where the sexually abused survivor's family re-victimized and re-traumatized him. www.safeplaceformen.com 

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Episode 14:People Pleasing Sexual Abuse Manifesting Issues

Is people pleasing or compliance patterns manifesting from your sexual abuse history?  They used to for Thomas and a client he worked with this week.  Learn about "kaput power" and one coaching technique Thomas used to help this week's male survivor. www.safeplaceformen.com 

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Episode 12:Stepping Out Into the Unknown to Heal Part 2

Part 2 -Thomas shares a blast from the past. Two of the youngest guys Thomas has coached share their experience how the sexual abuse affected their lives and the transformational workshop retreat. www.safeplaceformen.com

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Episode 11:Turning Trauma To Triumph Again!

Thomas and Mike share a candid, powerfully touching moment as they discuss the transformation that has occurred for Mike going through the Stage 4 New Imprint coaching program. Where do you want to be on your journey months from now?  www.safeplaceformen.com

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Episode 10:Stepping Out Into the Unknown to Heal

Thomas shares a blast from the past. Two of the youngest guys Thomas has coached share their experience of the transformational workshop retreat. www.safeplaceformen.com 

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Episode 9:Valentine's Special For Male Survivors: I care (Usted es querido)

Special SHOUT OUT! to my peps on this valentine's day.  Hopefully a few words just let you know you are cared about. www.safeplaceformen.com

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Episode 8:Keeping Us From Disclosing The Secret

Thomas candidly dives into a few reasons male survivors might be reluctant to disclose the sexual abuse. He opens up and shares a rare detail about his own sexual abuse and disclosure.  www.safeplaceformen.com

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Episode 7:Heal in Community Not Isolation

Healing in community. Two strangers meet. Thomas met Dave after speaking at the Courage Conference in Florida in October 2019. They asked each other one question "What does it look like for us to be a part of each others life and supporting each other?" It starts here. So, Dave shares part of the insights gained from his journey down the sexual abuse path. 

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Episode 6:Male Survivors! Step Into Your Power & Greatness!

Thomas shares his vision of 19 million male survivors, stepping into their greatness and being who they were meant to be, and doing the work to get to that place. www.safeplaceformen.com

Episode 5:Acting Out: Moving from Victim to Victim Abuser

Thomas shares two recent coaching sessions with high-functioning survivors.  One survivor deals with the aftermath by acting out and repeating abusive behaviors toward family and work teams.  The other via coaching phenomenally changes his trajectory and redefines what success look like. www.safeplaceformen.com

Episode 4:Survivors dealing or not with toxic families

Thomas talks about his coaching sessions over the holidays for survivors attempting to determine if they are in toxic families. www.safeplaceformen.com

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