Most men were never taught how to be gentle with themselves — and according to trauma therapist Roberto Schiraldi, that's not a personal failure. It's a cultural disorder with a name. Roberto Schiraldi is a licensed professional counselor, trauma therapist, and racial justice advocate with over 40 years of experience. His book, Post-Traumatic Macho Disorder: The Way Home, unpacks how the cultural conditioning of macho masculinity dehumanizes men and undermines our collective wellbeing — and offers a path forward. In this conversation, Travis and Roberto explore what "Post-Traumatic Macho Disorder" actually means and why fear is at the core of macho culture, how growing up with violence, people-pleasing, and shame shaped Roberto's early life, the moment he called a private detective to have himself killed and what changed everything, his 35-year love story with Eileen and what her death taught him about love, why every man Roberto works with struggles with one thing — being gentle with themselves, what parents can give young boys that most never received, why healing masculinity is additive not subtractive, and the first step Roberto recommends for any man ready to do this work.
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