In a world where war seems to be a recurring reality, a new kind of warrior spirit is beginning to emerge. In my book The Warrior’s Journey Home: Healing Men, Healing the Planet, I quoted Chögyam Trungpa a Tibetan Buddhist master and scholar. “Warriorship here,” said Trungpa, “does not refer to making war on others. Aggression is
Too many guys have been told that midlife is a crisis, and that everything is downhill from there. That was not my own experience or the thousands of men I have seen in my clinical practice at MenAlive since we launched in 1972. I have written seventeen books to improve the mental, emotional, and
Like most males, I have been concerned with birth control most of my life. When I was a teenager there were admonitions from my parents to “be careful.” Though rarely put into words, I knew what they meant was: “Don’t get a girl pregnant.” I still remember overhearing a high school girl telling her
In Part 1 of this series, I introduced you to Phil Stutz and described my first encounters with his work and how valuable I have found his practices. I described the three domains that Dr. Stutz believes are part of the universal human experience: The first domain is pain. The second domain is uncertainty.
In Part 1 I introduced you to two men who have had a powerful influence on my life and career. The philosopher Paul Tillich introduced me to three fundamental questions in life: The psychiatrist Dr. Phil Stutz introduced me to the three unavoidable realities of life that we must all navigate and integrate,
In April 1964 I met a man who changed my life forever. I was twenty years old, in my senior year at U.C. Santa Barbara, when I took a class from the world-renowned philosopher Paul Tillich. Tillich defined religion not as a set of beliefs or practices, but as the human experience of being
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