In my seventeenth book, 12 Rules For Good Men, I detailed twelve specific things I felt were important for men in order to become their healthiest, most mature, selves: After working in the field of Gender-Specific Healing and Men’s Health for more than fifty years, these twelve “rules” were my response to the many questions
I have been in a men’s group that has been meeting for 46 years. I was thirty-five years old when it began and I’m eighty-one now. I want to start a new group and am looking for ten mid-life men who would like to be in the group with me. Midlife is a
Long Live Men: Emerging Communities Supporting Mature Masculinity 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. In
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.
Part 3 Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) You can read: For most of my early adult life if you’d asked me about my early life experiences following my father’s hospitalization or the year I dutifully went with my uncle to visit my father, I would have said I didn’t remember much or made
September 10, 2024 was World Suicide Prevention Day. According to the World Health Organization, “Every year 726,000 people take their own life and there are many more people who make suicide attempts.” When I was five years old my mid-life father took an overdose of sleeping pills after he had become increasingly depressed because he
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