In Part 1, I discussed the origin of my own search for masculinity growing up with an absent father. I also introduced you to Michael Gurian and Sean Kullman and their book, Boys, A Rescue Plan: Moving Beyond the Politics of Masculinity to Health Male Development. Another colleague I had the pleasure of interviewing
I have been searching for mature masculinity since I was five years old when my mid-life father took an overdose of sleeping pills. He had become increasingly depressed because he felt he couldn’t support his family doing the work that he loved. We are living at a time when males feel increasingly disconnected from themselves,
When I first read Dr. Julia DiGangi’s best-selling book, Energy Rising: The Neuroscience of Leading with Emotional Power, I knew it was a game changer for improving our love lives, our work lives, and the most important life we have—the inner life with our emotional selves. Dr. DiGangi is a neuropsychologist who completed her residency
I was 25 years old on November 21, 1969 when I held my first-born son, Jemal, in my arms shortly after he was born and made a vow that I would be a different kind of father than my father was able to be for me and to do everything I could to create a
Part 5: Our Home Attracted Death Like a Magnet Our home attracted death like a magnet. In 1949, the same year my father was committed to Camarillo State Hospital, Holly, a close friend of the family, shot himself. I remember going to the service, confused and afraid, but no one talked about why he died.
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