Numbness isn’t toughness. It makes men fragile, and most men have no idea. That reframe kept surfacing in this conversation with Jenny, and I think it’s one more men need to actually sit with. We talked about how men get conditioned from a young age to...
I’m lying on the floor of a therapy office, maybe 26 or 27 years old, arms shooting up into the air, crying harder than I’ve ever cried in my life, screaming “hold me, hold me, hold me.” I sound like I’m two years old. That was the first...
Over 60% of men who attempted suicide in Canada had already reached out for mental health support before the attempt. What they got back wasn’t giving them what they needed. That stat stopped me cold. And it captures something I see constantly in my work. Men...
The man who’s trying hardest not to make her uncomfortable is often the one who makes her most uncomfortable. That’s the paradox at the center of nice guy syndrome, and it’s one I know from the inside. I sat down with the host of The Dating Chit to...
There’s a version of a man most of us have never encountered. One who’s fully here, not running some calculation in the background, not floating in his thoughts while half of him is somewhere else entirely. When you encounter that man, something in you...
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