When I was a young dad, I loved reading picture books to my kids every night. Their favourites were read and re-read to the point that even they knew what the words on the page were, long before they could read. These times were precious because that’s how their day ended, but also because this ritual restored me…
In 1972, Ann Wilson Schaef, an American psychotherapist, coined the phrase “white male system.” which is a consciousness that she says infects everyone living in western society. It’s a very addictive way of thinking and feeling that imprisons us, but we don’t know it exists because of how clever the system is. Imagine a prison cell with four…
Over the past 500 years, society has constructed a way of thinking and living that now imprisons men, trapping them in cycles of futility. Get good grades, go to university or learn a trade, work hard, pay the bills, raise the kids, wrestle with traffic and hopefully have something at the end of it all to take a few cruises before…
It is very rare that I would write anything political, and I am quite sure that right now the very last thing any of you want to read is anything political.So instead, I want to talk about a two subjects we often visit in healthy male spirituality. The first is the white male system, and the second is…
