Brene Brown — The Good Men Project

How to Love Fearlessly

March 27, 2013 By Rebecca Butler 12 Comments

marriage, love, fighting, divorce, separation, relationships, love, families, fear of abandonment, insecurity, commitment

Do you feel secure in your relationship?

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When Stress Leads to Male Bonding & Compassion

February 21, 2013 By Emma Seppala 4 Comments

Dr. Emma Seppala on the new evidence that men are more likely to cooperate in difficult circumstances.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Health, Psych, & Addiction Tagged With: acute stress, Aneeta Rattan, Benjamin Converse, Bernadette von Dawans, blow off steam, Brene Brown, deep friendships, emma seppala, fight or flight, human compassion, Krishna Savani, male bonding, male psycology, Markus Heinrichs, men and compassion, Psychology Today, road rage, Robert Sapolsky, Shelley Taylor, stress hormones, the effects of stress, the science of compassion, types of stress, University of Freiburg

Lessons Learned at The Summit of Dads

February 6, 2013 By Kenny Bodanis 3 Comments

Kenny Bodanis on how the Dad 2.0 conference changed his outlook.

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The Value of Choking Up

February 5, 2013 By Alan Kercinik 15 Comments

Alan Kercinik talks about finding his “why” as a father… and his emotions.

Filed Under: Families, Featured Content Tagged With: Black Hockey Jesus, Brene Brown, crying, Dad 2.0, dads, emotion, emotional repression, fatherhood, Motivation, parenting, public speaking, Ted Rubin, writing

Shame Is Why We Fight

January 6, 2013 By Vironika Tugaleva 29 Comments

When a man can’t soothe his woman’s anxieties, he has failed to protect her. And in our culture of masculinity, failed men are expendable.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Men and Masculinity, Sex & Relationships, The Good Life Tagged With: abuse, aggression, anger, Anger Management, anxiety, authenticity, battering, biology, Brene Brown, communication, concern, conflict, cult of femininity, cult of masculinity, cycle of abuse, defensiveness, dignity, disposability of men, domestic abuse, domestic violence, domination, embarrassment, emotional intelligence, emotions, empathy, entitlement, evolutionary psychology, fear, female anxiety, Fighting, gender roles, hate crimes, heterosexual relationships, inadequacy, instinct, integrity, intimacy, isolation, judgment, judgmental, male ego, male entitlement, masculinity, mass shootings, misplaced blame, panic, prejudice, protectors, relationships, secrecy, secrets, security, sex, shame, shame research, silence, socialization, soothing, Steven Stosny, submission, support, suppressing anger, suppressing fear, triggers, validation, values, venting, vigilance, violence, vulnerability

Forgiving Adultery

January 4, 2013 By Rebecca Butler 10 Comments

After cheating, a yogi learns that you have to forgive to heal.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Infidelity, The Good Life Tagged With: abandonment, adultery, Affairs, betrayal, Brene Brown, cheated with his best friend, cheating, Compassion, disengagement, Divorce, drug use, drugs, Elephant Journal, falling out of love, fears, Forgiveness, Freedom, healing, infidelity, karma, Kung Fu Panda, losing touch, lying, marriage, mixed families, party lifestyle, partying, pregnancy, revenge, shame, single motherhood, single mothers, treason, Waylon Jennings, why women cheat, yoga, yogi

The Uniform of Gender

December 11, 2012 By Vironika Tugaleva 13 Comments

Gender is like a uniform you can’t take off.

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Fears for Tears: Men and Vulnerability

September 26, 2012 By Higher Unlearning 5 Comments

Jeff Perera has a story that will make you weep.

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A Thousand Boomers’ Kids and World Domination

July 16, 2012 By Ken Solin 1 Comment

Ken Solin reports from Portland’s notorious World Domination Summit, and finds the future… hopeful.

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content Tagged With: Brene Brown, Chris Guillebeau, Conferences, Fifty News, men, Owen Marcus, Portland, social justice, vulnerability, women, World Domination Summit

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Illinois Passes Bill for Comprehensive Sex-Ed in Public Schools

“In fantasy land, we teach our kids abstinence—and they listen.”

David R. Dow: Lessons From Death Row Inmates (TEDTalk VIDEO)

David R. Dow is an attorney in Texas who has defended over 100 death row inmates over the last 20 years.

HuffPost Live: Decapitating Extremism (VIDEO)

Mike Sacks discusses the attack in Woolwich, London, and extremism with a panel of experts on Islam and the Quran.

Our Mission: The Vasectomy Files 8

The Vasectomy Project is encouraging men to join forces and take responsibly for family planning. This is an opportunity to bring people together to talk about our collective responsibility while offering men a concrete way to contribute towards a solution by having a vasectomy.