#63 Paul Shields - A Therapist's Life of Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll

This week my guest is Paul Shields. A Stanford student, therapist, podcast producer, podcast host and previously gigging rock and roll artist. ** Explicit Language and Topics Used**

This podcast is an account of growing up in the roughest part of Glasgow. During the 80s and 90s Paul was surrounded by working class culture, violence, drugs, mental health struggles and poverty. We speak about about how that shaped Paul and how he pulled strength from these circumstances but also the counterbalancing effects it had on him him later in life. Learn how the fear from his Dad mustered aggression in him and how he became hyper normalised to violence through gang fights and scheme wars.

Paul discovered drugs, guitar and his creative side which let him to parking his academic career for a decade. He toured the country playing in the some of the most renown stages in the UK supporting some of the craziest bands. Paul uncovers the reality of being a touring musician but also how his earlier childhood dictated his persona in the band - a persona he had to unwind later in therapy.

Paul lost his dad at 21. Learn about the promise Paul made to his dad to continue playing and pursuing music and how this led him to gigging in the same same week as as his Dad's funeral.

Paul then struggled with a porn addiction that led to erectile dysfunction at an alarmingly young age. Paul sought help from a therapist who unlocked in him the power of self-help through the works of world renown therapist David Burns.

Paul has went on to study to become a therapist over a decade after initially joining university and has become a practitioner in Glasgow whilst running a successful podcast studio.

Thanks Paul for such a raw story!

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