Zack Alexander: Child Sexual Abuse Victim to Spiritual Awakening
On The Next Man Up, host Coral Osborne interviews spiritual and leadership mentor Zack Alexander about modern masculinity, trauma integration, and resisting performative “guru” culture. Zack shares his shift from atheist law-school scholarship student to somatic and spiritual practitioner after recovering repressed memories of child sexual abuse by a parent, describing somatic memory, parts work, somatic experiencing, and the challenge of distinguishing spiritual awakening from mental instability.
They discuss misdiagnosis and pathologizing in mental health, the harms of pedestalization and…
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