An honest reflection on masculinity, emotional intelligence, and why boys are taught to hide their feelings. This episode explores how emotional safety, tenderness, and connection are essential to boys’ and men’s mental health.

What if we taught boys that feeling is not failure — and that tenderness is strength?

Many boys grow up learning that emotions should be hidden, suppressed, or controlled…

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An honest reflection on boys’ mental health, masculinity, and emotional intelligence — and why so many boys are taught to hide their feelings.

From an early age, many boys learn that showing emotion is a weakness and that strength means staying silent. Over time, this emotional suppression takes a heavy toll, contributing to anxiety, stress, anger, disconnection, and difficulty forming healthy relationships.

In this episode, Dr. Shungu H. M’gadzah explores how we can redefine masculinity by creating emotional safety for boys and men. Drawing on years of psychological practice and the Six Stages Framework, the reflection looks at how people move from emotional shutdown toward awareness, connection, and healthy emotional expression.

This is not just a conversation for fathers and sons. It is a conversation for all of us — parents, educators, professionals, and communities — who shape the messages boys receive about emotions, strength, and vulnerability.

Affection is not weakness.
Vulnerability is courage.
And emotional intelligence is essential to mental wellbeing.

Learn more about the Six Stages Framework

https://www.sixstagesframework.com