I spent my teenage years watching other guys wrestle and touch each other easily, cracking jokes with their whole bodies, while mine simply refused to do any of that. Girls were the terrifying part. My body would lock up, I’d freeze, I’d ruminate for hours...
There’s a very specific kind of panic that shows up in a young man’s body around attraction, sweaty palms, a throat that won’t open, a mind spinning through everything you could say and none of it coming out. That’s where I started this...
I was a teenager who froze every time a woman I liked walked into the room. Body tight, palms sweaty, brain completely offline. That’s where I start this conversation on Echo Chamber, because that freeze followed me into my twenties and it’s the reason I...
One of my clients came back from a three day ski trip with the buddies he’s known since childhood, right in the middle of his marriage falling apart, and only one of them asked what was going on. He came home lonelier than when he left. That story is basically...
Every time I hear a guy call vulnerability weak, or connecting with other men weak, what I’m actually hearing is fear talking. That’s it. I sat down with The Wisdom Movers to dig into why so many men are still stuck posturing their way through life, and...
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