Guys Dealings with Feelings
For men who say "I'm fine" when they're not.
Guys Dealings With Feelings is a podcast about what men actually carry — anger, grief, shutdown, the things they don't say out loud. Aaron Gray, who lost his infant son Joel in 2012, hosts with his childhood friend Jason, a therapist with 18 years of clinical experience. One of them has lived it. The other knows the language.
Together they talk about identity, trauma, presence, being a man, and what it takes to feel anything again — without judgment or performative toughness.
Also searchable as Guys Dealing With Feelings.
Guys Dealings with Feelings
You Can't Change What Happened—But You Can Change What Happens Next
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Life can change in an instant. One phone call. A divorce. A diagnosis. Losing someone you love. Losing the future you thought you were going to have. None of us chooses these moments.
The real question is:
What do we do after they happen?
In this episode, Aaron shares the unimaginable loss of his son Joel and the journey that followed—not toward "getting over it," but toward finding meaning, acceptance, and eventually peace.
Jason explains why our nervous system naturally resists change, why we become trapped in rumination, and why healing begins when we stop fighting reality and start learning how to work with it.
In this conversation, you'll learn:
• Why accepting reality is not the same as approving of it
• The hidden reason we stay emotionally stuck after loss and trauma
• How our thoughts keep us trapped in the past
• Why healing isn't about forgetting—it's about changing your relationship with what happened
• The role of the nervous system and vagus nerve in emotional recovery
• Practical ways to begin moving forward after life changes overnight
Whether you're grieving someone you lost, recovering from divorce, facing a career change, or simply struggling with a future you never imagined, this episode offers hope without pretending the pain isn't real. Sometimes healing doesn't begin when life changes. It begins when we stop fighting the fact that it already has.
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Stay in the fight. The world is a better place with you in it.
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