Posts tagged self-reliance
Distraction is the New Drug

For a long time, it seemed like distraction was looked at negatively: it’s the thing to avoid aggressively, because it will tank your productivity and your vision for how you want your life to look like. But now it seems like more of us look to distraction in a positive light: it’s the thing that keeps us from having to deal with the difficulties life throws our way. It numbs our emotional state and makes us not feel the weight of pain, anxiety, grief, and other stressors.

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The Year of Clarity: A Meditation for a New Year

It’s no surprise that many of us find inspiration and even wonder into the newness that a new year brings. The potential for greater things, for healing, for promotion, for wholeness, and for whatever else the heart desires… [but] there’s not necessarily a handbook on how to maximize the new year.

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The Damaging Effects Of Toxic Masculinity

What does it mean to "be a man"?

That question has been punted around most likely since the beginning of civilization. 

In my experience, with a changing culture our definitions of masculinity have become more varied and hotly debated.

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