I remember when the reality of my childhood started to hit me over the head. I was sitting in a somatic psychotherapy training with Ron Kurtz listening to others speak about how their childhood …
Did Your Parents Love You Too Much?
The balance parents and children must find between too much protection and too much freedom is a challenging balance. Always making sure the kids are happy, buffered from discomfort, guided to make …
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We Are Killing Our Boys
It’s hard to be a boy these days. A boy today goes to schools run mostly by women, who are under intense pressure to get test scores up. His recess is reduced or taken away because there is so much to …
It Doesn’t Pay to Be a Man
In her New York Times article “The Declining Demand for Men”, Nancy Folbre says there is something that makes this recession unique for men: The Great Recession has sometimes been dubbed the …
Why Are Emotions So Hard for Us?
Are you born to fight? Maybe – you are born to hunt. As men, we are the hunters of the hunter-gathers. We are born to provide and protect. If need be, we will fight. It is in that fight we see the …
A Post I Shouldn’t Write
I escaped city life to live the small town life… I escaped to Sandpoint, ID thirteen years ago this weekend. When I visited here in May that year I was not just blown away with the beauty of Sandpoint …