by Michael | Dec 30, 2020 | Building Skills, Relationships, Work
When you give energy to a thing, you give it life. Energy includes mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual material like thoughts and posture and effort. When you give a thing or a person or an idea energy, you give it life. The other, accompanying side is that...
by Michael | Sep 5, 2016 | Building Skills, Quotes
by Michael | Aug 9, 2016 | Building Skills, Quotes
All too often our sex-ed conversations get bogged down in whether to stress abstinence as the safest (or only) option for teens. But an early, healthy understanding of sexuality can shape a person in ways that are significant and lifelong. “Healthy...
by Michael | Jun 23, 2016 | Building Skills, Quotes
…Yet when they are immunized against this deeper emotional honesty, the results have far-reaching, often devastating consequences. Despite the emergence of the metrosexual and an increase in stay-at-home dads, tough-guy stereotypes die hard. As men continue to...
by Michael | May 24, 2016 | Building Skills
I am reading slowly The Evolving Self, a book by Robert Kegan, about the coming together of psychoanalytic theory and cognitive developmentalism. It’s heady and I’m being patient with myself, especially since the reading is deepening me and my theoretical basis for...
by Michael | May 3, 2016 | Building Skills
I have a version of this that a midwife taught us, but this is something I’ll try very...