2 Major Benefits of Journaling
The practice of journaling has a variety of benefits that can help you to heal as well as to achieve your goals. Two important goals that journaling can provide are: helping you to clarify your goals, and improving connection between the left and right side of your brain. These benefits can go a long way […]
What Calls You? 5 Tips For Finding “Who You Are”
I want to use this blog as a way to challenge male stereotypes, “man codes”, etc. and what better way to do that than to breakdown a children’s “princess” movie from a male, psychological perspective. I’m Andrew, I’m a grown man, I watched Moana and I loved every minute of it. I’ll even go beyond […]
Man-Up: 5 Tips For Becoming a More Emotionally-Engaged Father
What’s the point of being an emotionally-engaged father? Isn’t it just a lot of girly stuff? Why can’t I just be provider and disciplinarian while their mother deals with the emotions? The advantages of being an emotionally-engaged father are numerous. A feeling of deeper connection to your children. Your children feeling more deeply connected to you. Higher levels of […]
The Emotionally-Present Father
Fatherhood Today Fathers today are expected to be more emotionally involved in their kid’s lives than ever before. Yet many of us find this to be new, uncharted terrain, quite different from the fathering we experienced as children. Often the message we received was that dads provide financial support and discipline. In the emotional arena, […]
Mindfulness
What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is a pretty big buzzword in therapy today but what does it really mean? Does it mean doing yoga, meditating, sitting silently in a dark room, or just stopping to smell the flowers? Mindfulness CAN include these things, yet these things also can be done without any mindfulness at all. Mindfulness means […]
The Need for Adventure
I am really happy to join my wife as we expand our practice. The focus of my first series of blogs will be on the male journey of developing mental and emotional health. I hope you enjoy… Men need adventure. Adventure comes in many forms but it is in the male DNA to crave it. I have […]