Ep.23/ Mens Work: the path to purpose, authenticity and ease with Caspar Chittenden
What are th e greatest challenges facing men today? How can we view our current paradigms of success and our operating systems? How can we better support mens mental wellbeing and chronic stress? And what is on the other side?
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Up on the podcast this week we have a special guest, my wonderful partner Caspar Chittenden. The world of men’s work is so important and this episode was recorded with the intention to be a call to action for men. It’s an invitation to explore your inner landscape, to ask yourself powerful questions, an invitation for transformation. It’s a call to take an honest look at your current operating system and understand how to go about upgrading your way of being, so that you can live a life of increased ease, connection, fulfilment, love, joy and purpose.
About Caspar:
Caspar is a transformational life coach, supporting courageous men to radically realign their lives and build authentic success, connection and fulfilment. Caspar spent 10 years working as a strength and conditioning coach, co-owning and managing his London-based training centre Three Aces Training. During this time, Caspar noticed a correlation between the results his clients were getting and their lifestyles outside of the gym, identifying the impacts of stress and mental and emotional wellbeing on our health in general. Caspar sold out of the business at the start of 2021 to focus on meeting men on a deeper level and now runs his private life coaching practice from our home together in Brighton.
In this episode:
- making big / radical decisions to shape our lives to make us happy
- common struggles and issues amongst men, including purpose, inner leadership, boundaries, repressed emotions and difficulties around vulnerable communication
- the challenging paradigm of what ‘success’ looks like: living by the values of others or social norms and denying yourself of your own authenticity
- the outdated messaging of ‘boys don’t cry’ leading to communication break-down, challenges in articulating emotions and needing to find coping mechanisms
- understanding your own values and designing your life accordingly
- symptoms of operating in high states of stress
- ways to give yourself more space
- overcoming fears around judgement when you want to change aspects of who you are or what you do
- the taboo around therapy and how it can help to support you, alongside men’s work
- what is on the other side of stress and challenges you might be currently facing
“We’re programmed around suppressing emotions or be strong and man up, so when something arises we tend to push it away and it further numbs the mind-body connection. Mindfulness, meditation, breathwork and other somatic practices can be really powerful for getting in touch with your emotional self and your own inner landscape and from there you can really begin to uncover what you need to do and what needs to be done in your life in order to bring yourself back to a centre line and place of ease. And when you move towards that ease away from stress we are able to experience so much more joy, clarity, mental acuity. We aren’t operating from a reactive place, we are acting from a responsive place. We’re able to look at the world through an entirely different lens ”
- Caspar Chittenden
To contact Caspar:
IG: @coachingwithcaspar
Website: www.coachingwithcaspar.com
