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An Evolving Man Podcast

Piers Cross

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Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 316

An Evolving Man Podcast looks at men's psychology, healing trauma, boarding school syndrome, spirituality and healing. Every few weeks there will be an interview around men's topics ranging from self-development, relationships, spirituality, archetypes, and men's work featuring authors and leaders in this field.

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Boarding On Insanity Relaunches On Saturday | National News Coverage Sunday

Thursday, April 17, 2025 • Duration 07:44

#boardingoninsanity #boardingschoolsyndrome #emotionalintelligence #gabormaté #attachmenttheory

Boarding On Insanity Relaunches On Saturday | National News Coverage Sunday

To join the waiting list for the documentary: https://www.boardingoninsanity.com/

And to read the newspaper article from 20th April here: https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/magazine

Take care, Piers

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems.

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man.

He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1

For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross

For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic

For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community

Many blessings,

Piers Cross

http://piers-cross.com/

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Sibling of A Boarding School Survivor | Piers Cross

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 • Duration 14:50

Today I talk about being the sibling, brother or sister of a boarding school survivor.

What might have been the impact on you of having your sibling being separated from you and put into a boarding school?

Here I explore some of the psychology of the breaking of attachment and the rupture that the siblings must have felt.

Beliefs along the lines of: "there must be something wrong with me" "I am not special" might arise in the psyche.

The boarder will not have been able to share their experiences and due to the perception that boarding schools are a privilege the child left at home might think there is something wrong with them. Why am I not privileged?

Some reflections and thoughts following a great question.

Take care,

Piers

#siblings #boardingschoolsurvivor #rupture #attachmenttheory

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems.

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man.

For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross

For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic

For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community

Many blessings,

Piers Cross

http://piers-cross.com/

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Reflections: A Week After My Wife's Death | London Premiere 1st March 2025 | Piers Cross

Wednesday, February 19, 2025 • Duration 10:11

A few reflections about the death of my wife.

How has the last week been?

I share some of my grief.

And I talk about the documentary premiere in 10 days time in London at the Rio in Dalston: https://www.riocinema.org.uk/movie/boarding-on-insanity-qa/

We have decided to go ahead with the premiere as my wife was so supportive of the film.

Take care,

Piers

#boardingoninsanity #grief #loss #boardingschoolsyndrome

https://www.riocinema.org.uk/movie/boarding-on-insanity-qa/

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems.

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man.

For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross

For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic

For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community

Many blessings,

Piers Cross

http://piers-cross.com/

“My Parents Dumped Me in a Foreign Orphanage” AEM #84 | Andrew Kavchak | Westminster School | Boarding

Episode 84

Friday, January 12, 2024 • Duration 01:16:25

What is the impact of taking a child age 13 away from their family for a year and putting them in a boarding school?

And during that year the child only sees their parents once for Xmas?

What would happen to that child especially if they were put into one of the top boarding schools in the UK, Westminster?

Today I am speaking with author Andrew Kavchak who shares his own experience of living away from his parents for a whole year at Westminster.

He shares his loneliness, how it felt like he “had been dumped in a foreign orphanage,” and how he struggled with his studies.

A really fascinating conversation. I also really recommend his book.

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Andrew Kavchak was born in Montreal and has called Ottawa home since the late 1980s. Andrew studied political science (M.A.) and law (LL.B.) at university and then joined the federal civil service to pursue a career in public policy. After a lengthy career in the bureaucracy he began writing books that are available on Amazon. Today we will be talking about his book, Westminster: Reflections of a Boarder.

Some questions for Andrew:

I would love for you to share some of your journey. What drew to you to writing your book about boarding school?
In writing your book you talk about the history of boarding school. What did you learn about the tradition of boarding?
Having been brought up in Canada what was it like being in a British boarding school. How much of a culture shock was it for you?
What was the number one thing that stood out to you about boarding? Both positive and negative.
What was the long separation from your parents like for you?
You mention having a big emotional release after watching an interview with Nick Duffell. Could you talk us through that please? What happened?

The Importance of Touch for Child Development - And The Lack of It in Boarding Schools

Wednesday, January 10, 2024 • Duration 08:40

Touch is so important for #childdevelopment.

Last week I was reading author Andrew Kavchak's book about his boarding school experience:

"One of the features of being at a boarding school that contributed to my starting to feel like a grape drying on the vine and shriveling up like a raisin was the absense of any touching with another human being.

As the much-needed physical contact had vanished from my life I began to feel as though I was a Ieper."

Researchers, like Aikaterini -Katerina Fotopoulou talk about the importance of touch in human development.

Today I talk about the importance of touch and the lack of touch in boarding schools. How might that impact the children who are rarely touched for large parts of childhood?

#touch #trauma #traumarecovery #boardingschoolsyndrome #boardingschool

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems.

Childhood Trauma & Self Compassion | Christine Neff

Wednesday, January 3, 2024 • Duration 09:49

In working with ex-boarders I see that we are so hard on ourselves.

Our inner critic can be brutal.

Today I share some thoughts about #selfcompassion.

What are 3 ways of cultivating it? #compassion

https://youtu.be/PhHJ_ZlaaMc

For the film fundraising: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/boarding-on-insanity#/

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems.

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man.

For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross

For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic

For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community

Many blessings,

Piers Cross

http://piers-cross.com/

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Married To A Boarding School Survivor - Why Does He Always Push Me Away?

Wednesday, December 27, 2023 • Duration 11:42

Wishing you all a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year.

Here's to a year of healing and moving into wholeness.

Today I was asked some questions by someone who was going out with an ex-boarder.

She tells me: "My ex partner is a boarding school survivor. We recently split up and I really miss him. I feel like he loves me, but pushes me away. I am wondering if I should just give him space?

1. He pushes me away so much, so the point where he has blocked my number. Then, once I find a way to talk to him again, he acts like he really loves me.

2. Is there a way I can get him to open up and talk to me?

3. How can I express my needs to him without him getting frustrated and giving up?"

Today I offer some reflections drawing on the work of attachment theory and the work of John Bowlby, CG Jung and Dr Diane Poole Heller.

Warm regards, Piers

#boardingschoolsurvivor #attachmenttheory #relationships

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems.

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man.

For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross

For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic

For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community

Many blessings,

Piers Cross

http://piers-cross.com/

Episode 83

Friday, December 22, 2023 • Duration 01:08:53

On today's podcast I am speaking with best selling author Michael Davitt, who writes under the pen name, Luke Pemberton.

Today he talks about some of his mental health journey.

He talks about his breakdown while working in the diplomatic service and how he links that into complex PTSD and his time spent as child growing up and at boarding school.

He also talk about Boris Johnson and how his boarding school experiences might have impacted his leadership.

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Michael Davitt is an author focusing on mental health issues. He has published five books to-date under his author pseudonym, Luke Pemberton. His books are based around a series of his drawings illustrating how he experienced, and then recovered from, complex-PTSD stemming from emotional neglect in childhood. Prior to writing these books, Michael worked in the diplomatic field after several years in the private sector. He is from Porthcawl in South Wales and is now based in Vienna, Austria.

Some questions for Michael:

I would love for you to share some of your journey. How did you start to realise the impact that boarding school has had on you?
The notion that boarding school education equals privilege which can then shame people into not seeking the psychological help that many people inevitably need in adult life.
How to overcome childhood trauma and the boarding school experience through:

Acknowledging that things might have gone wrong for you in childhood and identifying the issues;
Working through and processing the trauma (involving therapy, but most importantly honest introspection, note-taking or journaling, and then converting notes into drawings using analogies);
Executing a new life based on the knowledge and wisdom gained.

The impact of religious education in male boarding schools."
Other areas to talk about: Emotional neglect

Boarding on Insanity - Update to the Film - Upcoming Retreat

Wednesday, December 20, 2023 • Duration 07:43

Today I wanted to offer some reflections about the film and the current fundraising which you can find here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/boarding-on-insanity#/discussion

We are currently half way through the fundraising.

A big thanks for all your help.

We have raised £5000 so far which is wonderful, thank you.

We are starting to organise a retreat as part of the film.

This will be a 4 day event where we will film 10 ex-boarders male and females.

I talk a little today about what has been happening with the film. Please feel free to share the promo as much as possible. Thank you.

Warm regards, Piers

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems.

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man.

For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross

For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic

For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community

Many blessings,

Piers Cross

http://piers-cross.com/

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Girls Boarding Schools | Depression | Addictions | Third Culture - AEM #82 – Person Irresponsible

Episode 82

Friday, December 15, 2023 • Duration 01:18:16

Today's conversation is with author Person Irresponsible (PI). PI is the author of two books.

Her first book charts her walk from the Mexico to the border of Canada in 2020. Her second book talks about her journey around the UK in a van and also shares some of her boarding school journey.

In this episode we talk about her experiences of boarding school and how that has impacted her life. She talks about how she came across the issue of boarding school while attending Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). In one meeting 5 out of the 6 attendees were ex-boarders.

PI shares her journey of recovery and also talk about her experiences of being a third culture kid (third country kid). She also shares the difference between girls boarding schools and co-ed boarding schools. What does happen in a girls boarding school?

A fascinating conversation.

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Person Irresponsible is the author of several bestselling book including Everywhere I Never Wanted To Go and Everything You Ever Taught Me about her travels across the UK and walking from Canada to Mexico. She is also an ex-boarder who attended two boarding schools.

Questions for PI:

I would love for you to share some of your journey. How did you start to realise the impact that boarding school has had on you?
Other areas to talk about:
1. Third culture kids
2. Losing home
3. Depression and how school dealt with it
4. The language of denial – especially - “It never did me any harm...”
5. The marketing and business side of a boarding school
6. The psychological abuse girls are put under
7. What were the punishments like?
8. What in your eyes have been some of the side effects of boarding school on your life?
9. Never settling
10. Addictions
11. Matriarchy

#boardingschool #girlsboardingschool #addictionrecovery #alanon

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