PART 1 I just returned from spending a week with my men’s group. We began meeting forty-three years ago with seven of us. Now there are only three that are alive and can travel. We have been committed to our own healing and supporting each other and our families to be the best men we
When people visit my website, MenAlive, you will see my welcome video, “Confessions of a twice-divorced marriage counselor.” I used to try and hide the fact that I’d been married twice and divorced twice. Who would ever want to come to see a marriage counselor who was a failure at marriage? But I’ve learned some
Two years ago we learned about a few people dying in a far-off land and soon were engulfed in a world-wide pandemic that has killed more than 6 million people world-wide and nearly 1 million people in the U.S. alone. Now we are seeing people die every day in Ukraine and wonder whether the violence
Beyond the Myth of David and Goliath: How We Can All Support Ukraine in Bringing About Lasting Peace
The Western media offers a story that the invasion of Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin is a battle between David and Goliath, which I think is partially true, but mostly false. It is accurate that the two main characters in this drama, Presidents Putin and Zellensky, are male and when a male is threatened
“Kids have a hole in their soul in the shape of their dad.” —Roland Warren, past president of the National Fatherhood Initiative. I’ve been dealing with the father wound my whole life. I was five years old when my father took an overdose of sleeping pills and was committed to Camarillo State Mental Hospital,
I’ve been a marriage and family therapist for 54 years and I have a confession to make. I have been divorced twice, which used to cause me considerable shame. I wondered how could I be taken seriously in wanting to help save other people’s marriages if I couldn’t take care of my own? I decided
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