Thanksgiving and Carving the Bird
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. Family. Friends. Football. Food. All the traditions. In my family, if you were
Continue readingMental Health, Wellness, and Relationships with a Dash of Humor
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. Family. Friends. Football. Food. All the traditions. In my family, if you were
Continue readingReleasing those emotions and pent up energy felt immediately cathartic, like drawing poison from a wound. The lesson was not lost on me. In fact, I cried for the better part of the next year. It was a challenging year but the rewards were equal to the immense difficulty. I learned to experience emotions, instead of burying them, and I felt the value of tears.
Continue readingI was feeling utterly aimless and frustrated. I didn’t want to replace old goals with new ones; it made me feel like a hamster on the wheel. Yet it was familiar; a mode of existence strongly imprinted in my mind; set goals and strive to achieve them. I didn’t know how else to live, but I was simultaneously annoyed by the seemingly inherent dissatisfaction that accompanied this mode of being.
Continue readingMasculinity exists on a sliding scale. It’s not definite, it constantly fluctuates from moment to moment. If one of those moments afforded me to tip the scales toward masculinity, establishing my non-crying credentials would definitely have done the trick. Keep in mind, I was never a macho man and never felt the need to amplify those bona fides. However, everyone is different; a comfortable sense of self established by varying degrees of masculine validation.
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