Hello, hello, and welcome to the Borealis
Unknown:experience. I'm your host Aurora. And I'm very excited to
Unknown:have Ryan, Matthew with me today. He is a healer, a healer
Unknown:of some sort, like I follow him on Facebook, I read his posts,
Unknown:and he's not the kind of healer who's going to pamper you who's
Unknown:going to make you feel good all the time. He's the kind of
Unknown:healer who shakes you and wakes you up and makes you aware of
Unknown:your bs that you're living and wants you to break free from
Unknown:victim mentality and playing small. He is a hell of a person,
Unknown:I can tell already, we only had a 15 minute talk here last week.
Unknown:But I'm very excited to be collaborating with Ryan, and to
Unknown:have a conversation today a conversation about masculine,
Unknown:feminine, about being a complex human being, and not only one
Unknown:sided, and narrow minded. Welcome to the show, Ryan,
Unknown:Matthew, thank you so much for making the time. And thank you
Unknown:so much for inviting us a little bit into your world, and how you
Unknown:approach healing, and all the content you put out there, we
Unknown:want to know everything about you.
Unknown:Well, thank you for that awesome introduction, that was
Unknown:incredible. I really appreciate the work that you're doing as
Unknown:well. And I love what we're able to do as humans and how dynamic
Unknown:we can be and all the very different ways we can help each
Unknown:other heal. And I love what you said about me not being able, or
Unknown:me not being afraid of pointing out the Bs, I think there's a
Unknown:way to do that sometimes you kind of have to circle around it
Unknown:a little bit and create some awareness and allow the person
Unknown:to see it themselves. And sometimes I think it's
Unknown:beneficial to, you know, speak to it very directly. And I think
Unknown:that's kind of what you want to talk about today is that, that
Unknown:balance of things like we're not I'm not just going to go at
Unknown:everything very direct very hard all the time, it's about
Unknown:creating an awareness of the situation, seeing what the
Unknown:situation needs, and then responding appropriately, you
Unknown:know, so I love that. So some of the some of the things that are
Unknown:going on in my life right now. So I install currently install
Unknown:lightning protection systems on commercial buildings,
Unknown:skyscrapers, things like that, across the northeast of the
Unknown:United States. I am writing a chapter for a book called The
Unknown:Divine union. It's wisdom from leaders who honor the divine
Unknown:masculine and feminine. I have a music project called full shine,
Unknown:it's fo l shine because we're just a couple fools but we're
Unknown:still shining, we're having fun. And and then I'm also a couple
Unknown:months away from getting my coaching certification from
Unknown:AIPAC, which is the Institute for professional excellence in
Unknown:coaching. And I'll be starting that business at some point as
Unknown:well. And it's really all all of it is really centered on
Unknown:creating space for people supporting people while they do
Unknown:their own healing, you know, I i'm not i don't think that I'm
Unknown:better than anyone or above anyone or I need to help anyone.
Unknown:Everybody needs to help themselves, right? And so that's
Unknown:what it's about is creating a safe container where people feel
Unknown:like they can do that without fear. Without you know, well
Unknown:just the fear in general but fear of judgments fear,
Unknown:criticisms, fear of other people's fear. And so I feel
Unknown:like you know, my mission right now is to help create that
Unknown:space. stand firmly in the middle, create unity. And you
Unknown:know, stand for truth stand first back stand for
Unknown:sovereignty.
Unknown:Hmm, this is sweet music in my ears. And I love Yeah, like I
Unknown:said earlier, how complex you approach living and how you
Unknown:approach healing from all different kinds of angles like
Unknown:music is so healing and creating a safe space is so healing and
Unknown:then receiving advice from you as healing but also having the
Unknown:space to realize on like at your own time, where you want to heal
Unknown:and grow. And I feel one thing that we really have in common
Unknown:too is that we notice the gap between the feminine and the
Unknown:masculine and how we want to unite again And how was it? on
Unknown:your journey? my listeners know quite well, why I'm doing what
Unknown:I'm doing. But how, what was it for you like, what did you have
Unknown:to go through in order to want to heal this in society?
Unknown:Well, I had to go through it in myself first, right? So
Unknown:everything that every every issue that we see in the world
Unknown:today is inside of us somewhere. And I realized when I went
Unknown:through my divorce, that my part of the divorce and my
Unknown:relationship ending was that I didn't have a healthy
Unknown:relationship with my own feminine energy. I could not
Unknown:hold space for my ex wife, when she was in turmoil, when she was
Unknown:going through something emotionally, I couldn't hold
Unknown:space for her, because I couldn't hold space for myself.
Unknown:And so ultimately, what we're talking about is the divine,
Unknown:like the divine union that we're talking about that needs to
Unknown:happen in society, so that society can come together, and
Unknown:its wholeness as a collective needs to happen in us first,
Unknown:we're not going to be able to unite anyone if we're divided
Unknown:within ourselves, right. And so that's really why I'm so
Unknown:passionate about people taking responsibility is because I know
Unknown:that I, I can't change anybody, the only thing I can do is
Unknown:change myself. And when I do so, so over the last three years,
Unknown:there's been a ton of stuff, and we can dive into it more, I'm
Unknown:sure. But over the last three years, my world, what I see in
Unknown:the world has changed completely. I mean, I am a
Unknown:totally different person than I was today. And so the world
Unknown:around me looks completely different. Because we see the
Unknown:world as we are not as you know, what we believe the world to be
Unknown:so. So it really just starts by, you know, one thing that was so
Unknown:powerful for me was, I think it was Byron, Katie, she said
Unknown:something like, whenever I judge someone else, I turn it back on
Unknown:myself. And so if I'm criticizing someone else, I say,
Unknown:do I do that? Like ever? Do I ever do when I'm criticizing
Unknown:this person for maybe not in this very particular situation
Unknown:that I'm witnessing in front of me right now. But, you know, say
Unknown:somebody is being very selfish. And you're saying, am I ever
Unknown:selfish? And if you really look at it, and you are really honest
Unknown:with yourself, everybody's selfish at some point, right?
Unknown:And so it creates this space of like, I'm selfish. Why am I
Unknown:selfish? So maybe why is that person being selfish in this
Unknown:moment, it allows you to have empathy for people, you know,
Unknown:when you're able to put it back on yourself, and you say, you
Unknown:know, okay, everything that I'm experiencing, right, or
Unknown:everything they're experiencing right now, I also experience
Unknown:Well, now you just realize that we're all the same, we're all
Unknown:dealing with the same stuff. The problem is, is that we don't
Unknown:admit it to ourselves, you know, we, and we stay in our shadow
Unknown:about it. And and when we don't admit things to ourself, there's
Unknown:I mean, that's the gateway to everything right? That they say
Unknown:that with addiction. First, you have to admit that you're
Unknown:addicted to something. It's the same thing, like healing our
Unknown:traumas and saying, you know, okay, I have an abandonment
Unknown:wound. How do I address this, if you if you're not admitting that
Unknown:you have an abandonment wound, and I have had one, believe me,
Unknown:I probably still do and still buried in there somewhere. But
Unknown:if you're not admitting that to yourself, you can never really
Unknown:start to work on it, because you're just in denial. And so
Unknown:I'm very passionate about every individual taking responsibility
Unknown:for themselves so that we as a collective can take
Unknown:responsibility together. And that, you know, if that happens,
Unknown:if every person takes responsibility, and we come
Unknown:together as a united collective, there is no limit to what we
Unknown:could do to change this world. You know,
Unknown:yes, yes. Oh, this makes so much sense. And what I'm learning
Unknown:while I'm listening to you right now is that when we are in
Unknown:denial of our shadows, it also gives us a false sense of power,
Unknown:right? We look at the other person and say he or she is
Unknown:being selfish, because I'm never selfish that she is being
Unknown:selfish and now I'm gonna make her feel bad about it. I will
Unknown:guilt trip, I will punish. And all we're doing is punishing
Unknown:ourselves but we think we're doing it to the other person,
Unknown:and not knowing that we're poisoning our own environment
Unknown:like our head, our body Everything in in not seeing
Unknown:where we still can grow. And it's it's really tough. You
Unknown:know, like, you can probably agree that when you start
Unknown:started out on this journey, you were like holy shit, like I was
Unknown:responsible for all this all the time and I blamed it on somebody
Unknown:else, oh, I'm such a horrible person like that Not drift into
Unknown:self hate and regret and, and you know to numb this out with
Unknown:alcohol or drugs now like it's it's such a courageous path to
Unknown:be on and people have to know that waking up and realizing
Unknown:things is not always nice it's tough but it is so worth to walk
Unknown:that path and to be lonely for a certain time. How about
Unknown:loneliness? Do you feel loneliness at times when you
Unknown:when you started out on that path? Or still to this day, and
Unknown:the importance of alone time and allowing to feel lonely?
Unknown:Yeah, so I can't say I really experienced loneliness any more.
Unknown:But I definitely did when I started this, when basically
Unknown:when I cracked open and when I decided that I didn't know
Unknown:everything. And I was willing to learn from other people who had
Unknown:more experience than me who had done more work than me. And put
Unknown:put aside my dogmatic thinking, you know, because I think we all
Unknown:kind of get conditioned by the world. And then we're like,
Unknown:Okay, this is how the world is, I'm right, everybody else is
Unknown:wrong, right? This is an unhealthy growing of the ego.
Unknown:And so then we have all these unhealthy egos, which are really
Unknown:just a bunch of hurt children running around hurting
Unknown:everybody. And, and so when I put that aside, and I said, You
Unknown:know what? I am one person out of what, 7.8 billion people on
Unknown:the planet right now, how arrogant is it of me to think
Unknown:that I have it all figured out, and that everybody else is
Unknown:wrong. And there is a wealth of knowledge in every single
Unknown:person, right? We all go through life so differently, we've all
Unknown:been brought up through so many different experiences and
Unknown:cultures and all this stuff. And so when we allow ourselves to be
Unknown:open to different ideas, different perceptions, different
Unknown:ways of doing things. It's not saying that everybody else has
Unknown:it figured out either. So there's a matter of trust that
Unknown:needs to be built between your own intuition and yourself. But
Unknown:when we allow ourselves to be open, you know, I went to some
Unknown:retreats, I hired a coach, I invested in myself, right, I
Unknown:spent a lot of money on this. So over the last three years, but
Unknown:ultimately, it was because I was so miserable, with thinking that
Unknown:I was right, and everybody was wrong. That's where the real
Unknown:loneliness came in was I had separated myself from everyone,
Unknown:because my ego was like, No, this is the right way. Right?
Unknown:And, and it was so lonely there. And, and basically, all that I
Unknown:had was were superficial attachments to people that
Unknown:really had no depth at all. And so when I allowed myself to open
Unknown:up and start to connect with different people, and a lot of
Unknown:amazing, unconditionally loving people held so much beautiful
Unknown:space for me, and allowed me to play around with childlike
Unknown:innocence in all these new realms of things that I was
Unknown:exploring. And they were like, yeah, you're doing great, and I
Unknown:was like, a freaking mess, you know, but they weren't judging
Unknown:me. And that was so important. And so you feel that from
Unknown:certain people. And, and that just helped me to keep going,
Unknown:you know, and then these people, you know, as you start to shift
Unknown:out of this dogmatic way of thinking, right, you're
Unknown:separating from other people that may agree with you. And
Unknown:they're very firm in their beliefs, and they're very stuck
Unknown:in their dogma, you start breaking away from those people,
Unknown:and that scares them. And so they kind of try to like claw
Unknown:back at you. And then you learn to set healthy boundaries for
Unknown:yourself, and like, no, my time and energy is worth it, and I
Unknown:deserve to be respected. And so you start to set healthy
Unknown:boundaries, you start to see people fall away when you do
Unknown:that. And so there was a period of loneliness, you know, before
Unknown:I started this work, and then and that was the worst of it.
Unknown:And then also after I got into it, because people from what I
Unknown:call my old life, because it's so foreign to me now people from
Unknown:my old life started to fall away. And there was a time where
Unknown:there really wasn't a whole lot of people on the other side that
Unknown:were in my life, and so for Little while I felt very
Unknown:unsupported. I felt like the support that was coming my way
Unknown:was just another form of dogma. And they were like, We love and
Unknown:support you. But, you know, you basically have to believe what
Unknown:we believe, which was basically what I came from right. And so,
Unknown:but then, through the work, and through speaking my truth and
Unknown:sharing my story, you start to
Unknown:people that resonate with that start to come into your life.
Unknown:And I have two, dear, dear friends that came into my life.
Unknown:And I haven't even met them in person yet, which is the funny
Unknown:part, we met over zoom, we still communicate over zoom and over
Unknown:the phone, but I consider them to be two of my best friends.
Unknown:They're just unconditionally loving, non judgmental. We
Unknown:challenge each other all the time, we don't have
Unknown:conversations about superficial stuff. I mean, it's all deep, I
Unknown:get on the phone with my buddy, Jim. And it's like, Hey, man,
Unknown:how you doing? And he's like, I'm good. I feel like what's
Unknown:going on in the world right now. I mean, we just jumped right in
Unknown:some really deep topic. And so those are the relationships
Unknown:where when you're accessing a depth in your communication with
Unknown:each other, and the conversations that you're having
Unknown:the conversations that we're having right now, that is like,
Unknown:that's where we actually all want to be, I feel like is that
Unknown:depth, like, we are so dynamic as human beings, and we've lost
Unknown:that. And so you start to feel that again, and it is like, the
Unknown:warmest sensation out there. And, and what there is a period
Unknown:of loneliness that I feel like is inevitable, and anybody that
Unknown:I've talked to, that's done this work will say the same thing.
Unknown:Loneliness is part of it. And I've had to face that wound of
Unknown:not wanting to be alone, you know, because, because I had to,
Unknown:I had to be alone for a little while. And and, you know, I
Unknown:would go back to the people from my old life, seeking their
Unknown:approval, things like that, because I didn't want to be
Unknown:alone. And then I eventually had to be honest with myself about
Unknown:that, too, and say, why am I seeking approval from people
Unknown:that I've really don't agree with in any capacity anymore? I
Unknown:love them. And you know, I cherish their freedom to think
Unknown:what they think but it really doesn't resonate with me
Unknown:anymore. Why am I still seeking their approval? Well, because I
Unknown:didn't want to be alone. And so that was a wound that I had to
Unknown:heal, and now I'll be alone all the time. And I still don't feel
Unknown:lonely, I still feel so connected to everything. I mean,
Unknown:I just spent four days and four nights out in the woods with no
Unknown:food and no water and Native American ceremony. And I felt
Unknown:more connected to life than I've ever felt before. And so you
Unknown:know, but that all comes from healing those wounds But anyway,
Unknown:I'm kind of getting off on a rant here or a tangent there
Unknown:there is loneliness that has to be faced and I have absolutely
Unknown:faced that for sure.
Unknown:Yeah, yeah. Wow, that is so beautiful. Like especially when
Unknown:you talk about your last four days It sounds like you are able
Unknown:to source love and energy from nature and from the good people
Unknown:that are around you and food is our primary like thing to
Unknown:restore our energy but for some reason you you manage to tap in
Unknown:a different into a different like, I don't know dimension How
Unknown:do you call this? Where you were you fill your your energy tank
Unknown:off? Or in with with nature is that Did I get that right? No
Unknown:water and no food for four days?
Unknown:Yeah, so so the ceremony is four days and four nights long. I
Unknown:came down after three days and three nights, because I felt
Unknown:called to come down off the hill. But yeah, no food, water
Unknown:for four days, four nights, you're sitting in a little six
Unknown:foot by eight foot rectangle. And, you know, part of what I
Unknown:experienced out there was you know, I'm looking at all these
Unknown:ants crawling on the ground around me, you know, I don't
Unknown:have a bed or anything, you're just sleeping on the ground and.
Unknown:And I'm looking at all these ants. And these birds up in the
Unknown:trees and all these little creatures, right? And I'm
Unknown:watching these ants just go back and forth between wherever they
Unknown:were coming from back to their home, with these little twigs in
Unknown:their mouth, or leaves in their mouth or, you know, another dead
Unknown:end in their mouth or whatever. And I'm like, these ants are
Unknown:just like me, they're fulfilling their purpose. They're just
Unknown:doing their thing. They're surviving. They're building a
Unknown:home, they're eating. I was like, and they have everything
Unknown:they need, right on the ground right in front of them, the
Unknown:leaves, the twigs, whatever they need for their home. It's right
Unknown:there and there's a huge colony of ants. That's thriving.
Unknown:Underground somewhere, I don't know where they're home,
Unknown:actually. But, you know, and so I realized that the same is for
Unknown:us. And something that was in the Bible came back to me. I
Unknown:think Jesus said, you know, it's the birds of the trees and the
Unknown:insects of the forests. You know, the smallest creatures
Unknown:that are in existence are important enough to God to have
Unknown:their needs met, what makes you think your needs aren't going to
Unknown:be met. And that came back to me in a different way after this
Unknown:experience of, if I'm doing what I feel like I'm supposed to be
Unknown:doing healing myself, supporting others, while they do their own
Unknown:healing, living into the purpose of why I feel like I'm here, all
Unknown:my needs will always be met. And so I got an immense amount of
Unknown:peace after that experience of, Okay, I'm on my path, I'm not
Unknown:worried about anything. And I mean, I've just been in a flow
Unknown:state for, you know, a couple months now. But it's, it really
Unknown:is very powerful. And so when we can see that, you know, a big
Unknown:problem in our society today is people are not living their
Unknown:purpose, people are feeling unfulfilled, they're feeling
Unknown:like their lives don't matter. And that comes from a place
Unknown:inside of not feeling whole, not feeling loved, not feeling
Unknown:important for like, they're, they have anything to
Unknown:contribute. And all that stems from, you know, the way we were
Unknown:raised our conditioning, all that stuff, and so, but when we
Unknown:do this work, and we heal inside and we become whole, we live
Unknown:life so much lighter, it's it's like, you just go through life,
Unknown:knowing that everything is going to be provided for you. Even
Unknown:even the bad, you know, what we would judge as bad experiences,
Unknown:right? Even that is for us. I mean, I broke my ankle. This is
Unknown:this is kind of one of the catalystic events that happened
Unknown:for me recently is I broke my ankle at work. And it was like
Unknown:the dumbest thing like I was just like, stepping over this
Unknown:little fence, and my foot got caught and I snapped my ankle.
Unknown:And, you know, for about 15 minutes, I was laying on the
Unknown:ground in agonizing pain, causing way more pain on top of
Unknown:it by thinking about Oh shit, how am I going to pay my bills,
Unknown:I know this is gonna put me out of work for a few months, all
Unknown:these other anxieties came in and layered on top. And then I
Unknown:remembered what Dr. David Hawkins said in his book, one of
Unknown:his books, he has a lot that I read. But one of his books, he
Unknown:said, when you focus when you bring all your attention to the
Unknown:pain, it eventually runs out. And so I did that with my ankle,
Unknown:and the pain ran out after about 10 or 15 minutes, and I was able
Unknown:to get to a place of peace where I said, Okay, what opportunities
Unknown:are going to be opened up because of this. And my boss
Unknown:called me like five or 10 minutes later and was like, Hey,
Unknown:we don't want to put this through workman's comp. I just
Unknown:want to pay you your full salary. And we'll cover all your
Unknown:medical bills for however long that you're out. And I was like,
Unknown:okay, that's amazing. So there goes, all my needs being
Unknown:provided for right. What I didn't know at the time was that
Unknown:was going to lead into
Unknown:the darkest, darkest depths of my shadow that I could have ever
Unknown:experienced. I mean, I worked full time, you know, 6070 hours
Unknown:a week, I was going through coaching school, I was building
Unknown:an HR program for the company that I work for now, before I
Unknown:broke my ankle. And so I went from doing things 90 hours a
Unknown:week to sitting on my couch or the leg cast on not really being
Unknown:able to to anything, and I was in a very toxic relationship at
Unknown:the time. That relationship ended up ending. I fell down my
Unknown:stairs on my crutches, I broke my leg cast, I put a giant hole
Unknown:in the wall at the bottom of my staircase. And, and that was
Unknown:when that was when I broke open. So I'd cracked open before that
Unknown:right I started introducing these things and try on new
Unknown:concepts and learning. That was when I had the biggest release
Unknown:of energy out of my body that I've ever had grief rage. I
Unknown:mean, I sat at the bottom of my stairs and I cried for hours and
Unknown:later that week, I raged for hours in my living room, I
Unknown:screaming at the top of my lungs, flailing my arms, I
Unknown:probably looked like a lunatic. If you had walked in on me, you
Unknown:would have wanted to run the hell out of there. But that it
Unknown:was all that stuff that was locked up in my emotional body.
Unknown:And it wasn't just from my ankle. It wasn't just from
Unknown:falling down the stairs. It wasn't just from my relationship
Unknown:ending. It was those old wounds those generational patterns
Unknown:conditioning of my life and the lives of my parents and their
Unknown:parents that was coming through and so it was so much pain you
Unknown:know you cry when a relationship ends it's hard this was so
Unknown:different for me it was like I was crying because of all the
Unknown:relationships my mom went through that ended that caused
Unknown:her to be in such pain that she couldn't show up the way that
Unknown:she was supposed to show up for us when she was raising us as
Unknown:children's and so it led to this whole other cycle of pain for me
Unknown:that I had to work through and then I became angry at the world
Unknown:you know, I think we're all angry at the world to a certain
Unknown:degree because of our conditioning but I had gone into
Unknown:that rage I went in there with all of my attention and I and
Unknown:that's what made me so passionate about doing this work
Unknown:and becoming a healer and supporting people while they do
Unknown:their healing is because all that pain that I felt in that
Unknown:moment at the bottom of my staircase when I was raging on
Unknown:my couch in my living room all of that stemmed from other
Unknown:people not doing their work and hurting everybody else because
Unknown:of it and and I'm not angry at those people at all I'm not
Unknown:saying that but what I am saying is that when we do our work we
Unknown:we can cure generational curses we can you know you can call
Unknown:them whatever you want but there's a timeline things that
Unknown:happened right and and you know, my mother was very hurt by her
Unknown:mother I was very hurt by my mother and if I don't address
Unknown:that I'm going to hurt my children as well when I go into
Unknown:those wounds and I release that rage and that grief First of
Unknown:all, I mean my body feels better than it ever has because all
Unknown:that junk is out of there but second of all I'm able to look
Unknown:at people with compassion and say wow, she is really treating
Unknown:her child like crap right now and I feel so sorry for her
Unknown:instead of getting angry again stepping in you know I mean
Unknown:sometimes you have to step in if there's abuse but you know being
Unknown:angry judging that person now you're just adding to the pain
Unknown:that they're putting out into the world instead of having
Unknown:compassion for somebody and so we're able to get into that
Unknown:compassionate place that heart centered empathetic place when
Unknown:we look at the wounds that we have in our own lives and and
Unknown:were able to heal stuff that would have just continued
Unknown:forever right like another little child as a 30 year old
Unknown:man hurting somebody else because he hasn't dealt with his
Unknown:stuff and I feel like I again I kind of went on a tangent here I
Unknown:don't even remember what your original question was but I'm
Unknown:not sure if it matters
Unknown:so that's that's what made me so passionate about doing this
Unknown:healing was going into those dark dark places and then seeing
Unknown:what life looks like on the other side walking a little tall
Unknown:you know feeling a little lighter feeling like I can hold
Unknown:so much more and I don't feel like a victim and I don't feel
Unknown:like you know the world is out to get me or against me I feel
Unknown:like everything in the world is happening for me and I've been
Unknown:shown that so many times in my life that and I want everybody
Unknown:to feel that you know even the bat even a broken ankles even
Unknown:the ended relationships even the holes in your drywall you know
Unknown:it's all happening for us and yeah that's why I'm here is help
Unknown:people find that you know,
Unknown:oh man that's so powerful and I listened to you and then I
Unknown:started thinking now like how can I because I feel that build
Unknown:up inside of me I can feel the pain from my mom and my grandpa
Unknown:and my dad and grandma. I feel I want to explode and get rid of
Unknown:all that pain but how can I do it without breaking my ankle?
Unknown:That's my question right now. Well I need to roll my ankle
Unknown:class but but yeah, you describe it so vividly and I can see it
Unknown:you're breaking a vicious cycles. So to say an emotional,
Unknown:vicious cycle and you were able to break out because you choose
Unknown:to not see yourself as a victim. You choose to see this as an
Unknown:opportunity to create your own sense of masculinity and
Unknown:femininity and I'm so excited right now you can see it all on
Unknown:the wire. Love it. And I want to ask you like the time is
Unknown:running, but I feel we need to meet up again. I want to ask
Unknown:you, you went through all this and you were able to release
Unknown:this pain years. sense of masculinity must have changed
Unknown:like when you look at yourself when you first got engaged or or
Unknown:married your your ex wife and now you look at at Ryan today
Unknown:like the shift that you have done and and how would you
Unknown:describe that feeling and how do you observe the interaction with
Unknown:women like how it changed from back then to now How has your
Unknown:relation changed with women ever since?
Unknown:Yeah so back then I was very emasculated. I don't even know
Unknown:if I want to call myself masculine at that point,
Unknown:masculine shadow for sure. But it was very, I was very much a
Unknown:people pleaser, I've always been a good provider. I've you know,
Unknown:financially, security, things like that, that's always come
Unknown:naturally to me. But as far as being able to hold space for
Unknown:women, I was terrible at that, because I couldn't manage my own
Unknown:emotions, right. And, and I was very much a people pleaser, like
Unknown:I said, I had an abandonment wound, I didn't want people to
Unknown:leave, I became a doormat, in certain situations, where women
Unknown:just kind of walked all over me, I was very irritated, very angry
Unknown:all the time, there was a subtle layer of frustration that I
Unknown:lived with for so long before that, before all this stuff
Unknown:happened. And, you know, it would it would come to a head
Unknown:very often and you know, I'd be working on you know, I had a
Unknown:landscaping business for a while I'd be working on a lawn mower
Unknown:or something, and I something wouldn't go my way. And I
Unknown:chucked my wrench across the wall, you know, we see this all
Unknown:the time with men, they're just throwing things. I mean, this
Unknown:was me, you know, this was me. And, and that anger, I mean, oh,
Unknown:you're just angry at everything. And, and there are plenty of
Unknown:things that that kind of, we need to be angry about in the in
Unknown:the world today. But that subtle layer of anger was really just
Unknown:covering up all the hurt that was inside of me from my mother
Unknown:controlling me when I was younger, for my parents, not
Unknown:accepting me for who I was, and trying to get me to fit into
Unknown:this box of who they thought I should be. And, you know, always
Unknown:saying, oh, Ryan, that's so great. But you could do it
Unknown:better this way next time or something, you know, and that
Unknown:really develops this whole thing of, well, I'm not good enough.
Unknown:Because I, it's great, but it could be better, right? And so
Unknown:when I work through all that stuff, it's, you know, when you
Unknown:think you're not good enough, you have no confidence, who the
Unknown:hell would when they're thinking that. And when I realized that I
Unknown:was enough, just as I am, and every flaw and positive thing
Unknown:all thrown in there I am everything right? I'm still
Unknown:insecure, I still work through wounds every day. And so I'm not
Unknown:going to deny that. And I think that's the key is your own in
Unknown:your shit. You're just saying, like, yeah, it wasn't really
Unknown:fair that my parents did that for me. But it happened to me.
Unknown:And it's my responsibility to deal with it now. And so I have
Unknown:this very strong sense of confidence, knowing that I'm
Unknown:strong enough to deal with that stuff now. And I'm definitely
Unknown:not a doormat anymore. And I very much hold space for women.
Unknown:And they feel that there's many women that reach out to me and
Unknown:tell me their stories. Because they can feel that my energy is
Unknown:pure, and that I don't want anything from them. I don't need
Unknown:anything from them, I stand true. And myself, I have a good
Unknown:balance in my own psyche, my own body of my masculine and
Unknown:feminine polarities, and they are married inside of me. And
Unknown:that's the thing is, we need to marry our own polarities inside
Unknown:ourselves before we can ever marry with a divine feminine
Unknown:woman, you know, who stands in her power, a man who isn't
Unknown:married within himself is never gonna be able to maintain a
Unknown:marriage with a woman who is firm and herself, he'll be
Unknown:insecure as hell the whole time. Because he knows that
Unknown:something's off. And so I'm very confident in myself now. And,
Unknown:and women feel that and, and so it's a power that can very
Unknown:easily be abused. And I'm aware of that. And I'm very keen to
Unknown:recognize that it is a responsibility to live here, and
Unknown:to hold space for women so that they, I mean, and I'll just be
Unknown:honest, without women, I wouldn't be here right now,
Unknown:standing in this energy embodying what I embody. I mean,
Unknown:it is the women in my life that were hold within themselves that
Unknown:nurtured everything that I was going through, you know, I
Unknown:called my friend Sarah, at two o'clock in the morning when I
Unknown:was needed to rage in my living room and she told me, Ryan, you
Unknown:have to get yourself a rational let yourself feel your body it's
Unknown:not your you know, get out of your head, you're not going to
Unknown:rationalize any of this, just scream, just let yourself do it.
Unknown:And without her support, I wouldn't have felt, you know,
Unknown:work through that rage. And so
Unknown:I forget where I was going with this. But yeah, I mean, the
Unknown:marriage inside comes first. And then when you unite with other
Unknown:divine masculine men, divine women, and you respect each
Unknown:other sovereignty, I mean, it is just a beautiful, beautiful
Unknown:place to live. It's it's harmonious. It is respectful is
Unknown:love in the deepest form. And it's, it's magic, really. And
Unknown:that's the difference between where I was before, and where I
Unknown:was today, no magic, absolute magic, absolute passion, love
Unknown:for life, love for everything, every experience, that's that's
Unknown:a difference.
Unknown:Oh, my goodness, that's, I love when you say like, the masculine
Unknown:and feminine has to get married inside of you first. Because
Unknown:otherwise, in the outside world, we see separation, and we act
Unknown:separately from each other. And so deeply inspiring. Like, I
Unknown:love the words that you use, and I love to really picture your
Unknown:pain and everything you've gone through to see you now happy and
Unknown:and, like, resolved so to say and standing your truth standing
Unknown:your man and it's so incredibly attractive, like super magnetic.
Unknown:And yeah, I've just feel so blessed to have met you and to
Unknown:have you on my show. And now, incredible, thank you so much. I
Unknown:will make sure to let people know how they can contact you as
Unknown:a Facebook, that is the easiest.
Unknown:Yeah, Facebook, I'm just on there. As Ryan, Matthew, I have
Unknown:a couple other pages full shine as a page on Facebook, you can
Unknown:search full shine on Spotify, or Apple Music or whatever and
Unknown:check out our music. We have a new album coming out in the
Unknown:fall. You know, and thank you for the work that you're doing.
Unknown:You know, I really honor and respect to you. And you know,
Unknown:what you're doing is very magnetic as well the
Unknown:conversations that you're having with other men and women is
Unknown:super inspiring. I've listened to a couple other episodes that
Unknown:have been on here, very similar things to what we talked about
Unknown:today. And this is very much in line with with that divine union
Unknown:within ourselves. And I love the work that you're doing and I
Unknown:really respect you.
Unknown:Thank you so much. Yeah, make sure to check out Ryan Matthew
Unknown:on Facebook, and full shine on Spotify, Spotify, or on
Unknown:Facebook. This music is incredible. Like very, very good
Unknown:for your heart and your soul. Yeah, that was it. Thanks for
Unknown:listening. If you haven't yet, please subscribe. And if you
Unknown:want to leave me a tap on the shoulder. Make sure to leave a
Unknown:review on Apple podcast, it wouldn't mean the world to me.
Unknown:Thank you so much for listening. Until next time, bye bye