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I Can Finally Say I Am Proud to Be a Man

April 9, 2013 By Laurence Best 13 Comments

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A lifetime of homophobia had beaten down Larry Best, but with the help of a friend, he has regained pride in his manhood.

Filed Under: Editors' Picks, Featured Content, Gay Dad Project, Gay Pride, The Good Life Tagged With: acceptance, anal sex, character, civil rights, coming out, confidence, defining manhood, denial, Don't Say Gay legislation, friendship, gay coming of age, gay dads, gay dads project, gay fathers, gay lawyers, gay manhood, gay marriage, gay masculinity, gay men, gay men married to women, gay pride, gay puberty, gay sex, gay stereotypes, gender stereotypes, identity, lawyers, legal rights, male femininity, male feminists, male friendships, male pride, manhood, masculinity, Men and Feminism, men's friendships, platonic friendships, Sex and Relationships, sexual taboos, sexually passive men, sexually submissive men, shame

Mental Toughness Has Nothing to Do with Being a Hardass

March 27, 2013 By Wendy Lynne 8 Comments

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Learn the difference between mastery and suppression of your feelings.

Filed Under: Emotional Intelligence, Health, Psych, & Addiction, Male Toughness, The Good Life Tagged With: anger, Anger Management, anxiety, body mind connection, denial, difficult emotions, doubts, emotional resilience, grief, male toughness, man code, Man up, manhood, masculinity, men's emotions, men's feelings, mental toughness, negative emotions, problem solving emotions, psychology, repressed, self-knowledge, shame, stoicism, The Good Life

The Phases of a Break-Up

February 16, 2013 By Josh Bowman 4 Comments

Josh Bowman shares the many phases of a break-up.

Filed Under: Ten Things I've Learned Tagged With: denial, fear, men, paranoia, relationships, rocknroll, rose-coloured glasses, sex, Sex and Relationships, women, zen

Are American Churches As Racist As My Mom?

January 2, 2013 By Gregory Stevens 10 Comments

Fear is what we feel, denial is what we do, and defensiveness is how we do it.

Filed Under: Featured Content, In Good Faith Tagged With: christianity, church, defensiveness, denial, evangelical, evangelicalism, family, fear, Greg Stevens, Gregory Stevens, guilt, institutional racism, mom, mother, orthopraxy, prejudice, privilege, race, Racism, racist, shame, White Privilege, white supremacy

Why Can’t My Ex-Husband Talk About Our Son’s Psychiatric Disorder?

December 17, 2012 By Pauline Gaines 21 Comments

Part of loving a person with a psychiatric disorder, writes Pauline Gaines, is acknowledging that the disorder is real.

Filed Under: Mental Illness, The Good Life Tagged With: ADHD, bipolar, denial, mental illness, parenting, Pauline Gaines, psychological disorder, stigma, The Good Life

Darkness Falling

October 20, 2012 By Tom Matlack 14 Comments

On spending years dealing with depression every way other than dealing with it.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Good Is Good, On Depression Tagged With: addiction, alcoholism, cigar, clinical depression, denial, depression, family, mumford and sons, Natalie Merchant, recovery, rowing, running, Tom Matlack

Liberals and Conservatives: Ideology over Science

October 8, 2012 By Brandon Ferdig 51 Comments

What you believe should be true limits what you are willing to believe is true.

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content, Green Politics, The Good Life Tagged With: addiction, belief, Chris Mooney, climate change, climate skeptics, conservatives, creationism, debate, denial, economics, evolution, fear, Freakonomics, gender differences, GMOs, government programs, homosexuality, ideology, ignorance, intelligent design, liberals, Logic, partisan politics, personality, politics, prejudice, progressive values, progressives, race, reason, science, science denial, Stephen Levitt, teach the controversy, universal health care

“Withholding sex as a weapon IS abuse.”

September 15, 2012 By the Editors 3 Comments

This is a comment by Archy on the post “Withholding Sex is Not a Joke”.

Filed Under: Comment of the Day Tagged With: abuse, Comment of the Day, commercials, conditioning, damage, denial, guys, intimacy, Jokes, men, partners, punishment, reward, sex, sexual partners, sexuality, Stereotypes, weapon, women

Eating Sushi at Stoplights

August 25, 2012 By David Olimpio 2 Comments

Caring for his mother through treatment for a brain tumor, David Olimpio finds odd comforts in a city he used to call home.

Filed Under: Cancer, Featured Content, The Good Life Tagged With: brain tumor, cancer, care-taking, caring for mothers, caring for the terminally ill, confusion, death, denial, family, grief, home, hospitals, illness, loss, Lovers, mothers, radiation therapy, returning, sex, Sex and Relationships, symptoms

Men, Strength, and Death

August 23, 2012 By Steve Milan 3 Comments

True strength does not require denial of reality, but suppleness in meeting it.

Filed Under: Cancer, Featured Content, The Good Life Tagged With: acknowledging pain, adaptability, authenticity, body image, cancer, Care, coherence, crying, Dan Siegel, denial, Divorce, Doctors, emotions, energy, esophageal cancer, Faith, fear, flexibility, friends, grief, health, Hospice, illness, integration, isolation, John Wayne, joy, loss, masculine strength, medicine, men, men's emotions, Men's Health, pain, Palliative Care, Pancreatic Cancer, psychology, relationships, relief, religion, research, respect, rigidity, self image, self-sufficiency, solidity, stoicism, stomach cancer, strength, suppleness, surgery, terminal illness, terminally ill, vulnerability, withdrawal

The Man Behind the Mask

August 12, 2012 By Rick Belden and Stephanie Morgan 18 Comments

What keeps men from sharing their feelings—until it’s too late? Psychotherapist Stephanie Morgan explores the Boy Code through Rick Belden’s poetry.

Filed Under: Health, Psych, & Addiction, Poetry, The Good Life Tagged With: adult survivors of abuse, anger, boy code, counseling, couples, couples counseling, couples therapy, denial, depression, emotions, feelings, healing, man code, marriage, masculinity, Mask, masks, men's therapy, negative emotions, poetry, relationships, shame, stereotypes of men, Therapy

Cancer: 8/18

August 2, 2012 By The Good Life @ GMP 2 Comments

Survivors wanted: men’s stories of cancer.

Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, Cancer, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: Call for submissions, cancer and men, cancer diagnosis, cancer survivors, colorectal cancer, death, denial, grief, hope, Hospice, hospital, illness, liver cancer, lung cancer, male caregivers, medical, men's bodies, Men's Health, nurses, oncology, pain, Prostate Cancer, surgery, The Good Life

Sometimes a Train-Wreck is Just a Train-Wreck

July 14, 2012 By Robert Brown 11 Comments

Abuse survivor Rob Brown reports what life is like from deep inside his recovery.

Filed Under: Health, Psych, & Addiction Tagged With: abuse survivors, acceptance, childhood trauma, denial, Health Psycholog and Addiction, honesty, male survivors, men and trauma, recovery, Robert Brown, sexual abuse

Removing Water Stains From Wood Furniture and the Four Stages of Grieving

June 27, 2012 By Jay Palter Leave a Comment

Every man needs to know when to let go, and when to apply heat.

Filed Under: Lifestyle, The Good Life Tagged With: acceptance, anger, denial, domesticity, Google, grief, housekeeping, humor, iphone, iron, Jay Palter, Kubler-Ross, lifestyle, stages, stains, The Good Life, towel, wood furniture

Hey Guys, Are You Depressed and Don’t Know It?

March 12, 2012 By Jed Diamond Ph.D 13 Comments

Jed Diamond didn’t think he was depressed until his wife and two doctors convinced him.

Filed Under: Mental Illness, The Good Life Tagged With: anger, denial, depression, doctor, Husband, Jed Diamond, manic depressive, mental illness, The Good Life, wife

The Mind of a Venture Capitalist Is a Dangerous Place to Look for Clues to Manhood and Goodness (But Let’s Try)

February 28, 2012 By Tom Matlack 6 Comments

Tom Matlack takes a look into his own mind. The results? Well, see for yourself.

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Filed Under: Business Ethics, Featured Content, Good Is Good Tagged With: Art Technology Group, CFO, denial, finance, Food Network, math, profit, risk, Telephia, The Ladders, The mind of a VC, The Providence Journal, Tom Matlack, Venture Capitalist

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