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
I have been interested in men’s health most of my life. The event that triggered my life-long interest occurred when I was five years old. My mid-life father had become increasingly depressed when he couldn’t make a living to support his family and was hospitalized. I grew up wondering what happened to my father,
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.
These are times when there is much chaos, confusion, and conflict in our lives and in the world. We need supportive programs that can help us to survive, thrive, and prosper during these times when old systems are collapsing and new, more sustainable ones are coming into being. Humans have been walking for a long
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