A Journey Towards Connection Like all kids, I had little control of my environment. That would be okay if our environments were safe and supportive – but they rarely are. So, I attempted to control …
Where Are You on the Alexithymia Scale?
The first time I read about alexithymia -- difficulty in experiencing, expressing, and describing emotional responses -- I laughed. Now they have a diagnosis for being a normal man. Then I thought …
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What Is at Risk?
When I started the Sandpoint Men’s group in 2005, I remember sitting in my living room asking a man, “What is at risk?” That question came from asking myself to dive into my fear of acting. I would …
They Lied to Us – There Is No Right Way
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 …
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How Allowing Yourself to Feel Another’s Experience Will Change You
In the mid-1990s, my business Paul and I were building the Scottsdale Institute for Health and Medicine in Arizona. John Rattenbury, the lead teacher at Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s school in …
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How Metaphors Can Change You
Many years ago, we are talking decades; I had a teacher explain metaphors to me. This teacher used the difference between the War for Independence, which I was interested in, and the Civil War, …