Sensitivity is a controversial subject for men. According to common stereotype and stigma, men are either too sensitive or completely insensitive. Men might have feelings, but they won’t show them, the pervasive myth goes. When men do show their feelings, … Read More
What to do Following a Sports-Induced Concussion or TBI
Many mothers and fathers go through the fear, frustration, and horror of watching their athletically inclined son decline through the symptoms of a traumatic brain injury. Boys will be boys, parents tell themselves as boys rough-house, mess around, throw themselves … Read More
The Key To Negative Thinking: Don’t Try To Stop It
We live in an age of positivity. Self-help mantras and sales pitches for self-help programs worldwide are enthusiastically promoting positive thinking as the end all be all for better health and wellness. Negative thinking is bad and positive thinking is … Read More
Preparing for Another Year of Change
Change is the only constant. Grasping the full meaning of that is difficult. Change is the only constant. Change is happening all the time, in innumerable ways, all day, everyday. The world around us is changing. The world within us … Read More
We Were Right all Along: The Man Flu is Real
Men don’t really like to be sick. With a genetic code for strength and endurance, a build biologically stronger than female counterparts, and a socially imposed drive to be a provider, sick doesn’t work for men. Notoriously, men tend to … Read More
You Might Know Someone Addicted to Drugs
According to a Pew survey of US adults conducted in August of 2017, nearly half of adults have a family member or a friend who has been addicted to drugs, reports Vox. Forty-six percent of adults surveyed meet the criteria. … Read More
Sometimes you Need to be Bored
Active men living an active program of recovery, live lives that are on the move. After working hard through months of treatment, men have learned how to manifest their potential in their mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical form. They are … Read More
Alcohol vs. Marijuana: Which is Worse? (And Why it Doesn’t Matter)
Entering the rooms of recovery, whether they be twelve step meetings or the walls of a treatment facility, we learn something very quickly: there’s no room for comparison. Yet, most of us come in comparing. We weren’t that bad. At … Read More
The Journey Of “Funny” In The Brain
First, the information gets processed in the frontal lobe. We commonly use expressions like “a dead joke” or “over their head” or “tough crowd” to describe what happens when something “falls flat”. What really happens is, the frontal lobe decides … Read More
Your Body Is a Machine. Machines Don’t Run on Garbage
The Law of Conservation of Energy is the first law of thermodynamics. It states that energy must remain constant in an isolated system and is conserved as time passes and that it can neither be created nor destroyed. Instead, energy … Read More