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A Journey of Codependency: Fixing the Unfixable
View image | gettyimages.com Codependency can be deadly, no one is “fixable,” and the only person you control is yourself. — As an ambitious man, it’s easy to think you can fix anything. Get a...
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An Ex Male Model Explains: Why Fame is Not For Me
View image | gettyimages.com His rock star lifestyle wasn’t fulfilling, and his Bipolar Disorder was driving him to the brink. Here’s what he learned. — Lying on the ceramic floor in my drug dealer’s...
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Identifying the Signs of Drug Abuse in Teens & Young Adults: 1 Parent’s...
View image | gettyimages.com Despite our nation’s polarized political climate, however, there seems to be growing bipartisan support for changing our drug laws and draconian mandatory sentencing for...
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3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Help People In Need
He did all he could to save his mom but realized you shouldn’t always help people in need. — “F#%k!” There was no better word to describe how I felt at that moment as I sat on my bed feeling dazed and...
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How a Security System Salesman Saved My Relationship With My Son
Embed from Getty Images A stranger comes to the door to install a security system but ends up helping a mother reconnect with her son. — I look out the peephole and see a man with striking features,...
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Kurt Cobain Talks About his Parents’ Divorce, Sexual Identity, and Physical Pain
Embed from Getty Images — In this Blank on Blank remix, Kurt Cobain talks about his physical and emotional pain stemming from his parents’ divorce and his own sexual identity. “I even thought that I...
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Beating the Seven-to-Ten Year Itch Together
Can a marriage last more than six years? — Going into my tenth year of marriage caused me to do some deep thinking. I have found myself picking apart my relationship with my husband—kiss by tender...
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The Gray Death: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Opioid Drug Yet
Embed from Getty Images — From 2000 to 2015 more than half a million people died from drug overdoses. Shockingly, 91 people in America die from an opioid overdose each day. Now, a new enemy has joined...
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The Strain of the Opioid Epidemic on Families and the Foster Care System
Embed from Getty Images — The opioid crisis in America continues to claim more victims and, continues to destroy more families. This opioid epidemic claimed more than 33,000 deaths in the United...
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How the Man Box Can Kill Our Sons Now or Decades from Now
Bullying and murder are bad enough, but the meta risk factors of the Man Box can kill our sons decades in the future. — We are confronting an epidemic of violent bullying. And the only explanation we...
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The Lack of Gentle Platonic Touch in Men’s Lives is a Killer
— In preparing to write about the lack of gentle touch in men’s lives, I right away thought, “I feel confident I can do platonic touch, but I don’t necessarily trust other men to do it. Some guy will...
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I Am a Man. I Am Afraid. I Am OK.
— Being a father of addicted children can be a lonely journey sometimes. Most of the support groups out there are grossly under-represented by men and being vulnerable does not come easy for this...
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To the Fathers of Girls Everywhere
Selfish is often viewed as a negative word which is unfortunate. Girls are taught from a young age not to be selfish and to always share. However, taking care of oneself which is often associated with...
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The Man Box: The Link Between Emotional Suppression and Male Violence
Mark Greene explores the Man Box, and how it leads to policing of behavior that dares to fall outside the boundaries of traditional masculinity. — Humankind is in the throes of a savage epidemic. It...
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Flirting with Disaster
I met Rusty in English class, third-period. She sat on the other side of the room quiet but filled with electricity. With tight leather pants and big black boots, she sat back with a slicked, dark...
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“And This Year’s Oscar for New Ideals of Manhood Goes to…”
This year’s Oscar nominations tell us there is more afoot about men in Hollywood than just sexual predators, harassers, and oppressors of women. Sure, the gender equality revolution is, certainly,...
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You Can Lead a Horse to Water, but You Can’t Make it Drink
“You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink it” I remember hearing this a long time ago from one of my colleagues when I was just starting out in my adventures of healing others. I can...
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Here Is How It Starts: Drug Addiction
— Drug use is a difficult topic to tackle. Often times what begins out of curiosity but has the potential to take a turn for the worst. For the most part, people begin using drugs at age 21 or younger,...
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Alcoholics Anonymous and Honesty About Same Sex Desires
— I’m very conflicted now. I am in my midsixties and have been married since I was in my early twenties. I’ve struggled with depression, alcoholism, and drugs most of my life. The first twenty-five...
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Drugs
— I’m sitting down to write. I’ve read the news, stretched my body, done my part in getting my kids on their school bus, and made myself presentable for work. It’s been a productive morning. Over the...
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