Male Grief and Trust in 2026: What Grief Teaches Men About Power, Control and Trust
January 2026 Newsletter | Mentoring Through the Maze (Perth, Western Australia) If you’re carrying grief, pressure, or a change that won’t shift with effort, this month’s newsletter gives you a usable distinction: power (what you can do) and control (what you can’t command) and what trust looks like after grief – drawn from lived experience, […]
Emotional Fusion in Men: When Caring Becomes Control
What if all that caring you call strength is just another cage? Main Point Many mistake emotional fusion in men for love. What feels like care is often control—an inherited pattern born in boyhood, where safety depended on keeping someone else stable. Real maturity begins not when a man manages better, but when he stops […]
Grief and Masculinity: How Loss Shapes Strength and Self-Awareness
At a Glance Grief and masculinity often collide. Men are often trained to remain composed, even when life falls apart. But grief has a way of slipping past armour—it exposes what’s real beneath performance. This article redefines grief not as a flaw to mend or overcome, but as a rite of passage —a doorway into […]