Emotional Honesty for Men After Grief and Loss: A Practical Skill for Better Decisions
What grief, loss, and significant change ask of every man Grief, loss, and major change are brutal — and they do one thing no other experience in life does: they make the old strategies we used to manage life ineffective. In that gap sits an opportunity most men miss. That opportunity is emotional honesty — […]
Shame After Loss: The Silent Deal Men Make to Avoid Owing Anyone
Main Points Shame after loss in men results in many withdrawing from connections and relationships as they manage the impact of the change they are going through. Accepting help can feel like a debt, a form of leverage, or humiliation, even when that is not the intention. A simple check-in text can feel like the […]
Continuing Bonds for Fathers After a Child Dies: The Osiris and Horus Myth and How Fatherhood Continues
This article is about continuing bonds for fathers after a child dies and how the Osiris and Horus myth gives language for how fatherhood continues. An ancient myth of rupture and legitimacy — read as a structure for living after the world has split into before and after. Continuing bonds for fathers after a child […]
Vulnerability in Men: How Shame Builds Emotional Armour and How to Break the Pattern
If, as men, we are to reimagine healthy masculinity in the 21st century, we must accept what it means to be wounded and live within our woundedness until we are transformed into Wounded Healers who draw strength from our vulnerability rather than from a subverted heroic model of masculinity.