First Dates
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07/04/24 • 57 min
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First dates can be exhilarating, nerve-wracking, and everything in between. But fear not! On this episode of Gay Men Going Deeper, we're here to guide you through having a successful first date.
Join us as we share expert tips, personal stories, and practical advice for making a lasting impression and setting the stage for a potential connection. Some of the topics we’re covering in this episode:
- What exactly makes a first date ‘successful’
- What to talk about on a first date
- Techniques for active listening and showing genuine interest
- Chemistry and attraction
- The art of having an engaging conversation
- How to handle awkward moments
- Communication after your date
Whether you're a seasoned dater or stepping into dating for the first time, grab your notepad, pour yourself a drink, and learn how to make your next first date an unforgettable experience.
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First dates can be exhilarating, nerve-wracking, and everything in between. But fear not! On this episode of Gay Men Going Deeper, we're here to guide you through having a successful first date.
Join us as we share expert tips, personal stories, and practical advice for making a lasting impression and setting the stage for a potential connection. Some of the topics we’re covering in this episode:
- What exactly makes a first date ‘successful’
- What to talk about on a first date
- Techniques for active listening and showing genuine interest
- Chemistry and attraction
- The art of having an engaging conversation
- How to handle awkward moments
- Communication after your date
Whether you're a seasoned dater or stepping into dating for the first time, grab your notepad, pour yourself a drink, and learn how to make your next first date an unforgettable experience.
Today's Hosts:
Support the Show - viewer and listener support helps us to continue making episodes
- CONNECT WITH US -
- Watch podcast episodes on YouTube
- Join the Gay Men's Brotherhood Facebook community
- Get on our email list to get access to our monthly Zoom calls
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- Learn more about our community at GayMenGoingDeeper.com
- LEARN WITH US -
- Building Better Relationships online course: Learn how to nurture more meaningful and authentic connections with yourself and others.
- Healing Your Shame online course: Begin the journey toward greater confidence and self-worth by learning how to recognize and deal with toxic shame.
- Gay Men Going Deeper Coaching Collection: Lifetime access to BOTH courses + 45 coaching videos and 2 workshop series.
- Take the Attachment Style Quiz to determine your attachment style and get a free report.
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Developing a Healthy Relationship with Anger
In this episode, Matt speaks with Psychotherapist, Nyle Biondi, about anger and how important it is to connect with and release anger from our mind and body. Anger can serve a great purpose if we consciously work with it. It can help us step into our power, and be a messenger of unmet needs or crossed boundaries. Many of us have social conditioning that tells us anger is inappropriate, or perhaps you were even shamed for being angry. Connecting with your anger in a healthy way might just be what's missing from your healing journey.
The concepts and questions we explore in this episode are:
- Anger 101
- Other words to identify anger
- The difference between anger and rage
- Ways unprocessed anger shows up
- Your relationship with anger
- How to identify it?
- Implosive vs explosive anger
- Why do we repress anger?
- Why anger is helpful and why we need it
- The connection between anger and other emotions - primary and secondary feelings
- The challenges of exploring anger
- The benefits of exploring anger
- How to connect and activate anger in a healthy way
- How to release anger from the body
- Inner child work - letting your inner child have the temper tantrum it didn't get to have
- How to soothe your nervous system after feeling anger
- Soothing is like reparenting
3 Steps to Processing Anger:
- Connect and activate
- Past traumas
- Daily stressors
- Personality traits
- Release
- Primal screaming into a pillow
- Punching pillows
- Slamming pillows on your bed
- Chopping wood
- Batting cages
- Demo rooms
- Soothe
- Deep, slow, and long belly breathing - in through the nose and out slow through the mouth
- Hold your hand on your heart
- Listen to a guided meditation.
- Focus on positive sensations in your body
- Listen to your favourite song
- Smell something nice
- Talk to a friend
Today's Guest:Nyle Biondi
Today's Host: Matt Landsiedel
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Sexual Abuse
In this powerful episode, we address a topic that affects many but is often shrouded in silence and stigma: sexual abuse. Joining us for this important conversation is Michael Pezzullo, a seasoned therapist who works with trauma and sexual abuse recovery.
Together, we explore the impact that sexual abuse can have on one's mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Some of the topics covered in this episode are:
- Ways in which abuse can occur in childhood and/or adulthood
- Setting and maintaining sexual boundaries
- Navigating consent in queer spaces
- Common misconceptions we have about sexual abuse
- Long-term effects that survivors may experience
- Unique challenges faced by gay men who have endured abuse
- Types of therapeutic approaches available for survivors
Whether you are a survivor, know someone who is, or simply want to understand more about this crucial issue, this episode offers a compassionate and informative perspective on a topic that deserves our attention and empathy.
Today's Guest: Michael Pezzullo
Today's Host: Michael Diiorio
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- Building Better Relationships online course: Learn how to nurture more meaningful and authentic connections with yourself and others.
- Healing Your Shame online course: Begin the journey toward greater confidence and self-worth by learning how to recognize and deal with toxic shame.
- Gay Men Going Deeper Coaching Collection: Lifetime access to BOTH courses + 45 coaching videos and 2 workshop series.
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