“We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.” Alain De Botton In his poetic and powerful book, The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship, David Whyte says, “There is that first marriage, the one we usually mean, to another; that second marriage, which
Men are not new, but midlife is. The idea of a stage of life between adulthood and old age was first described in a paper published in 1965 by Dr. Elliott Jaques, then forty-eight years old, a relatively unknown Canadian psychoanalyst and organizational consultant. He coined the term “midlife crisis” and wrote that during this
My friend Frederick Marx is an internationally acclaimed, Oscar and Emmy nominated director/writer with 45 years in the film business. I first met Frederick after seeing his 1994 film, Hoop Dreams, one of the highest grossing non-musical documentaries in United States history. It was named, “The Best Documentary of All Time,” by the International Documentary Association. HoopDreams is the true story of two boys from inner-city
Part 2 —The Four Brain Characters and Two-Brain Wisdom In Part 1, I introduced you to the truth our two brain hemispheres actually are like two different minds or personalities operating inside us and cause major problems if they don’t work together. Harvard trained neuroanatomist, Jill Bolte Taylor, learned first-hand about the way the two
“Masculinity is not something given to you, something you’re born with, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.” –Norman Mailer As a psychotherapist who has worked with men and their families for more than fifty years, one of the things I’ve wondered about is the propensity men
“It was a great mistake my being born a man. I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, and who must always
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