I remember, as a young teenager, hanging out with my friends and talking about what we would do with a particular young teenage girl. We had no idea what we were talking about, but that was irrelevant. We were bonding, bragging and mostly B-S-ing. The more graphic you could be, the better. It was all [...]

Trauma and chronic stress significantly impacts us. More than any other phenomenon they impact our emotional intelligence. You don’t need to have gone to war to be experience their physiological or psychological effects. Much of the work I do with men and women can be traced to trauma. Bill Smythe, a colleague of mine wrote [...]

What is as controversial as politics and religion? Diets. The more health conscious a person is, the more adamant he is about his diet. Everyone has his reasons why his diet is better. Many of the reasons make sense, so how do you decide what is right for you? Where to start Knowing my holistic [...]

This is a guest post form Thomas Golden. A man’s emotional pain is often invisible.  You simply can’t see it. Most people assume that since it is not easy to spot that it must not exist.  Worse yet, all too often the assumption is that there is something wrong with men since they don’t seem [...]

Are you stressed? According to this new study, The New Male Mystique, it’s likely you are. In accordance with this study, American men now experience more work-life conflict than women. I’d guess most women would not agree that men are more stressed about balancing work and family. But it’s interesting that men today are admitting [...]

I am a guy. I treat men all the time. I know how it is. Men don’t think about their health until something is broken. If it is not broken, don’t fix it is our strategy. For 35 years I have fought for men being more aware about their bodies and their health. What I [...]

Our bodies are revered for what they can do… make, break, perform and kill. Now they are being cut into being beautiful. They are seldom idolized for their innate perfection. The money in perfection The fact that more men are using plastic surgery to perfect their bodies might represent our evolution – but to what [...]

As men we like to push it – sometimes too far. A new study printed in the New York Times reports on research published in The Journal of Applied Physiology. The gist of the study was: long term hard endurance exercise can damage your heart. Are you exhausted? As men we often think if some [...]