Everything You Have Been Taught About Masculinity Is Wrong
Masculinity isn’t a checklist—it’s the full human you’ve been told to hide. This calls out the mask, shows how the script got written, and invites men back to their whole selves.
Men Beyond Myths
Rethinking masculinity for a modern world
Welcome to 45
I came in this morning for the classic “welcome to 45” colonoscopy. I’m laying in the recovery room right now. Still a little wobbly. About an hour
Performative masculinity: the mask beneath every mask
A candid look at performative masculinity as the root mask men inherit, why beliefs like 'nobody likes a weak man' persist everywhere online, and what it looks like to set the performance down.
Thankful for the Quiet Ways Men Show Up
A Thanksgiving reflection on the quiet, often-unseen ways men show up with support, steadiness, and love.
A Year of Choosing Priorities: Movember, Men’s Health, and the Truth About Showing Up
One year of consistent training meets Movember’s call to stop waiting: prevention over excuses, two hours you choose this week, and an invite to book the checkup you’ve dodged.
A Mid-Movember Self-Care Check-In
A vulnerable mid-Movember note on small self-care corrections—therapy, sleep, meals, and slowing down.
Movember: Grow More Than a Mustache
My Uncle Rick used to pull up in his gray Mazda 626 — the one with stereo controls on the steering wheel, back when that felt futuristic. He always had something playing loud, something new I hadn’t heard yet. Crates of CDs in the trunk, a six-disc changer, the hum of the engine blending with whatev
The Masks We Wear
A Halloween reflection on the masks men wear long after the costumes come off — and what it costs to keep pretending.
The Myth of Performed Pride
When our sense of worth rests on the wrong foundations.
When Honesty Beats Stoicism: Breaking the Myth of the Self‑Sufficient Man
Why Do We Equate Strength With Going It Alone? When did we start believing that independence was the same thing as strength? That asking for help—or even admitting we’re struggling—somehow makes us less of a man? If you’ve ever felt the weight of that expectation, you’re not alone. Most of us were r