Count the Wins

Count the Wins

I’ll be straight with you. I drank six times over a three-year stretch. That’s not a success story in the traditional sense. I’m not standing on a stage with a chip and a perfectly clean record. And I’m not going to pretend otherwise, because...
What Young Men Taught Me

What Young Men Taught Me

I run six men’s groups, each with six or more men. One evening, after a quick dinner at home, I spent two hours with five young guys in one of those groups. It was only the second meeting of this particular group, and these guys were twenty to twenty-four years...
Men Need to Feel Powerful

Men Need to Feel Powerful

Here’s something I say plainly to anyone who will listen: victimhood doesn’t serve men the way it serves others. That’s not a dismissal of men’s suffering. Men suffer enormously. What I’m saying is that the framework of victimhood, the...
Apologies Heal You Too

Apologies Heal You Too

I hear people say it all the time: apologies are meaningless, changed behavior is all that matters. And I understand where that comes from. Words without action are hollow. Saying sorry and doing the same thing again the next day is not an apology, it’s a ritual...
Find Meaning in the Mess

Find Meaning in the Mess

Life feels like a fatal process sometimes. There’s no way around that. People, places, and things carve canyons into us in the violent rumbling of whatever is going on inside. Losses that feel permanent. Relationships that end. Seasons of pain so long and so...