Thanks Prince Harry For Opening Up About Seeking Help for Mental Health
— Twenty years after the death of his mother, Prince Harry opened up about seeking help for his mental health. He’d been carrying around unprocessed feelings about his mother’s death for over 20 years....
View ArticleYou’re Probably Wrong About Goal Setting
Embed from Getty Images — As a life coach, I’m always working with clients on their goals. It’s kind of our thing. Good coaches have a full, big toolbox to help you create important goals, get into...
View ArticleIntermittent Fasting for Men’s Health
Embed from Getty Images — Here’s the obligatory medical warning: You should not start this or any diet or exercise program without consulting your doctor. I am not a doctor, and nothing in here...
View ArticleThe Power of Patterns: Use Your Brain for a Change
Embed from Getty Images — Let’s talk about your brain. That beautiful, three-pound organ between your ears is a powerful pattern recognition engine. What does that mean? You know how people see faces...
View Article‘Just Think Happy Thoughts and Everything Will be OK’ — WRONG
Embed from Getty Images — Some time ago I was cleaning the house with my daughters, and they put the radio on. A song came on that was popular when I was in the depths of clinical depression, and I...
View ArticleHow to be Helpful by not Helping
Embed from Getty Images — I have a confession to make. I have fired a few therapists and coaches, mainly for the same reason. They tried to “fix” me. Either they used an intervention like cognitive...
View Article5 Natural Secrets for Men to Have Stronger, Healthier Sex
— If you have erectile dysfunction (ED), you should see your doctor. Beyond the obvious drawback, ED can be a symptom of other serious health issues—including heart disease—which should be checked out....
View ArticleYou’ve Got a Goddess Inside You, Chuck! Balancing the Divine Feminine and...
Embed from Getty Images — Recently I did a five-day retreat in “soul retrieval,” a shamanic process for healing trauma. I’ve participated in numerous shamanic learning circles and, like many of them,...
View ArticleHow Fathers Can Create a Better Bond With Their Children
— The greatest job I’ve ever had, the one I’ve loved the most, is being a dad. The day my twin daughters were born, from the very first second I held them, I was hooked. There is nothing I love as...
View Article5 Strategies Men Can Use to Deal With Negative Emotions
— Stereotypically, men have only a few ways to deal with negative emotions: We get drunk. We punch each other. We “man up,” stuffing our feelings down until we die of heart disease. I don’t think we...
View ArticleBody Shaming and Men
Embed from Getty Images — As I write this, Dani Mathers, a former Playboy model is on trial for a severe incident of body shaming. She faces jail time for using her phone to record a 70-year-old woman...
View ArticleWalking Between Worlds: How a Shaman Experiences Reality, and What That Means...
— “You know there’s no cure for that,” a therapist once told me in discussing my PTSD diagnosis. Yeah, thanks for that, Helpy Helperton. “Oh, but you can learn to manage your symptoms better.” Thanks....
View ArticleOK Guys, Let’s Teach Our Kids Some Love, Compassion, and Humility Already
Embed from Getty Images — This weekend, one of my daughters was playing with a friend who told her, out of the blue, “Gay people can’t go to heaven, and if you support gay people you’ll go to hell.”...
View ArticleModels of Meaning: A Key to One of the Major Obstacles to Interpersonal...
— “If you loved me you would have called,” declared my now-ex-girlfriend. “What? I’m sorry, I didn’t see that in the rulebook, what page is it on?” I quipped. We didn’t last much longer. This was back...
View ArticleGrowing Up vs. Waking Up: How Supposed Spiritual Masters Can Fall
— When I was in college, 700 years ago, I decided to take a meditation class. I got instantly hooked on the form of meditation being taught and sought out the teacher of my teacher. That led me to...
View ArticleHealthy Personal Boundaries Around Communication: An Essential Part of Self-Care
— It may seem like a radical position, but I believe that you have the right to choose how people communicate with you. This stems from my personal life and my life as a coach and healer. We all deal...
View ArticleGuys: Stress Will Make You Fat, Depressed, Impotent, and Dumb
— As a kid, I remember my father stepping on a board with a nail through it. It pierced his foot all the way through. He pulled it out, washed it off, wrapped a bandage around it, and kept working. In...
View ArticleHow to Intervene in a Potentially Violent Situation
Embed from Getty Images — With the terrorist attacks in London, and the recent knife attack by a white supremacist in Portland, Oregon, it’s time to talk about intervening in violent encounters. Most...
View ArticleQuit Yer Bellyaching
— I have a complaint. There’s too much complaining. I come from a long line of complainers. My family has lived in New England since the 1600s, and we still complain about the weather. You’d figure...
View ArticleMen Who Don’t Recognize They’ve Been Sexually Assaulted by a Woman
— In a recent article on the Huffington Post, guest writer Tres Dean writes about being sexually assaulted by an intoxicated woman at a party. Notably, he writes that for years he didn’t identify the...
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