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...
How We Each Fail

How We Each Fail

Let me give you the direct version because the people who need to hear this don’t need it softened. Women have specific patterns that damage relationships with men, and men have specific patterns that damage relationships with women. Neither side gets a pass....
Carrying My Grandmother

Carrying My Grandmother

I had the sad but honorable experience of serving as a pallbearer for my grandmother. She died on New Year’s Day after ninety-four years of pure love and pure service and sacrifice. Carrying her was one of the most solemn and meaningful things I have ever done....
Escape Fight or Flight

Escape Fight or Flight

Fight or flight is one of the most destructive states a man can operate from, and most of us live there far too often. That hair-trigger, reactive mode was designed for actual predators. It was not built for bad traffic, a difficult conversation with your spouse, or a...