Man-Up: A guy’s guide to living a man’s life with integrity, strength and a smile.

Grief is never about the person we lost; it is about the things we’ve left unresolved with the person we lost.

 
It’s been awhile since I have visited with the concepts of the mature archetypes and their underlying shadows.  Lately I’ve been having some pretty intense and very vivid dreams.  Some really wild stuff.  I suspect it is all part of my subconscious wrestling with my id and ego and trying to come to terms with [...]

Understanding what constitutes an emotion empowers you to master it.

       George Carlin died, Tim Russert’s term expired.   That’s probably the way they’d like it expressed.  Two men from very different world’s, Carlin cranky, reckless and very definitely anti-religion and Russert, the devout Catholic, polite, and very definitely blue collar.  But they both shared in mastering the energy of the mature lover.  Now for clarity, [...]

We all have a desire to embody one or more of the mature male archetypes: the efficiency of the warrior, the charisma of the lover, the wisdom of the magician, the generosity of the king. However, to get there we each need to take on our own demons. These tend to be embodied in the [...]