Masculinity
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Will you be brave and give love a chance?
One of the reasons we men dont want to deal with our shit is because we dont believe we have the capacity to love ourselves. In many scenarios, whether from driven, neglectful, absent or collusive, abusive parents, Love was absent,… Continue reading
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Practicing Safe Sensitivity.
Google ‘Sensitive’ and what do you find? (especially in the images). I love both Elaine Arun and Hannah Jane Walkers books on Sensitivity – but – in the main who are their key audiences and examples? Hannahs book is wonderful… Continue reading
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Male Sensitivity : Part 1 (Realising my own)
Toughen up You need to stand up for yourself Wimp You’re being sensitive Softy Pussyfoot And the ultimate.. Stop being so Gay. All words Ive heard in my life, some at school, some in places that were meant to be… Continue reading
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Boys and their Abused Dads
As a youth worker you get to hear alot of stories and moral panics about abusive or absent Dads, and the effect this has on children. It is often in regard to the behaviour of those children, especially in education… Continue reading
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On being a Man, and ‘Man Enough’ : I quite liked this
Over the last few weeks, because of a combination of some self-realisations, and also being under the weather with ‘the worst cold in history‘ I have been watching TED talks, and you know me, ive not been attracted to the… Continue reading
James Ballantyne 