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Caleb Campbell: I Pushed My Emotions Down to Deal With the Pressure. It Didn’t Work.
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Caleb Campbell is a well-known emotional wellness speaker and workshop facilitator that specializes in organizational effectiveness, development and change management. Caleb's keynotes and strategies help cultivate safe inclusive environments while helping maximize the employee experience through systems designed to help foster a deeper sense of connection to themselves, the people around them and the greater organizational mission. Caleb is also a West Point graduate, former Army Officer and NFL Draft Pick, and shares his struggles as a man who had zero emotional tools to handle the immense pressure he was faced with as a young adult in this week’s episode.
Key Takeaways
- Everything comes down to timing. JR shares how he randomly bumped into Caleb.
- How did Caleb get started in football?
- Parents want to be encouraging and supportive, but then at the same time, it can turn their children off completely or they can unknowingly have them develop a complex.
- Caleb talks about Christianity and God, and how he had to deconstruct his religion before building it back up again.
- How do we posture our hearts for more humility?
- Despite being loved in football, Caleb was miserable and always bullied.
- Why did Caleb join the military?
- Caleb had a deep longing within his heart to make a bigger impact.
- Caleb suppressed all of his pain and emotions, and when he couldn’t handle it anymore, he had a really bad rage problem.
- Caleb was getting pulled in two directions. His West Point superiors were telling him one thing, but society was telling him another.
- Caleb experienced his first panic attack when he became ‘famous’.
- When Caleb found out he was not allowed to go to the NFL while he was still at West Point, he was relieved. It meant he didn’t have to show people he didn’t have what it takes.
- Caleb reads out loud a negative ‘fan’ letter he received.
- Caleb had no tools in his emotional toolbelt to handle or deal with someone deeply calling him a coward like that.
- Instead of working through his fears, Caleb developed self-hatred.
- Caleb was actively trying to kill himself.
- There is no healing without vulnerability, and there is no vulnerability without community.
- How did Caleb repair his relationship with his mother? They used to get into tough yelling matches because they didn’t see eye to eye.
- Caleb talks about his relationship with his wife and some of the reasons why you always have to show up and just do the work.
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