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When was the last time you failed? My dyslexia teaches me every day that failure is inevitable. It also teaches me to be humble — it’s hard to be arrogant when you are making mistakes all the time. Maybe more than anything, it teaches me forgiveness. As men, we learn to organize against failing. Some…
Honor is the gift we get the least and may need the most. As I felt accepted, released, and then healed from my anger, fear, and sadness, I was often left with shame. I can feel and admit how I was traumatized and was unable to feel or express it at the time. It’s harder…
How to Get Out Fear. We all have fear. We always will have fear. Fear is good. Without fear, we would not survive. The problem is not fear. It’s the conscious and unconscious story we tell ourselves. It’s how we frame it. Fear in the moment warns us. Fear of the past or future can…
You don’t need to be an experience men’s group participant to appreciate the opportunity that challenge brings men. All you need to look at how to break out of your restraints is to be a man with a life that is not delivering what you want. Like many of us, I was raised to be…
I tried to be a good student. I tried to remember the order of things and then execute that order – yet something would always go wrong. I remember going to catechism, the Catholic religious training, and stressing out because I could not remember all the steps of First Communion. If you were not brought…
Let’s face it, guys – we don’t tend to orient towards prevention or listening to the small signals. We’re brought up to not fear or feel pain. We’re told to push through the pain — no pain, no gain.
