Former pro football player Joe Ehrmann, now both a pastor and a coach, rips apart the three myths of masculinity and offers a new definition of what it means to be a man.
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The words of Joe Ehrmann are truly transformative, and they cut to the core drivers of male shame and hurtful behavior—towards others and oneself. There are just too many paradigm-shifting quotes to include—and printing them steals the thunder of Joe’s booming delivery—but here are three that resonate deeply.
We have this massive repression of the very thing that makes us human.
We’re taught how to compare and compete with all the wrong definitions of being a man.
The epitome of what it means to be a man emanates from the heart.
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Thomas, I was married to the epitome of the man with a skewed idea of masculinity, and as a result, he had every single issue outlined by Joe Ehrmann. WOW. How true this is…
Dawn, It is amazing when a presentation such as this one parallels our own life experience, isn’t it?