Game Changers: The Conscious Culture Volume 1 Issue 6 | Page 15

Manhandled: Hidden Code Words That Impact Men and The People That Love Them by: Dr. Oliver T. Reid “Your Solution Coach”, international life, ministry and relationship coach, motivational speaker and multi-bestselling author.www.iamasolutionconsultingllc.com Many often ask who is Dr. Oliver T. Reid and the method behind his work as a motivational speaker and life coach. Some refer to me as” Your Solution Coach. I simply say, that I am a man that has dis- covered the answers to my problems I’ve faced the hard way. See I’ve learned that everything in my life is and was made of words. Every relationship I encountered were deeply embedded or rooted in word exchange. My latest book Manhandled: Hidden Code Words That Impact Men and The People That Love Them, delves into the fact there every man on earth has a set of codes. This book was written with women in mind. It is an in-depth look into how certain words we hear from our childhood as men influence how we relate to the people around us. Let’s address the Real Issues. Let’s Crack the Man-Code! Yes. I focused on the reality and some of my research was to see why most men will say what they don’t feel and feel what they don’t say. From when we’re kids, we're taught as men to sometimes suppress our feelings. When you fall, they say, “Hey, suck it up! Get up! Be tough! Don’t cry!” It’s embedded into our social DNA, how to act and our etiquette even from childhood. And so, you find that man twenty years later, engaged in relationships, suppressing his feelings. I realized that those behaviors come from words. So basically, words carry codes that embed or impute certain things and can trigger up some on-and-off behav- iors. Which kind of code words did I look at, how did I come with them, and how do they work? Code words always ran ramped in my communi- cation and set up a broken stage that