“The ManAlive program teaches how the angry man is more often a response to experiencing a threat to their image, which triggers a fight or flight response. When the sympathetic nervous system gets ...”

“This dissociation from the body extends to emotional disengagement. Without access to his feelings a man cant help but lose track of who he is, what his priorities are and what is normal for him.”

“It is very likely that men who are more gender role identified would never be seen as codependent because so many of their gender role traits are normal for an avoidantly attached codependent. Men ...”

“When I consider the men (like my father) I have treated in psychotherapy, I recognize the challenge I face as a counselor. These men are in counseling due to an insistent wife, troubled child or th...”

“Dissociation from the body and emotions numbness is a basic requirement of the male ideal. Hardy and Hough point out that the patriarchal cultures influence is so strong on this point that it int...”

“Few men realize how much of their lives are lived in pursuit of the values our culture has traditionally associated with masculinity. These values a primary focus on work, logical thinking and alw...”

“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more complet...”

“All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent”

“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”