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How I Overcame a Lifetime of Anxiety and Saved My Marriage in the Process

How I Overcame a Lifetime of Anxiety and Saved My Marriage in the Process

Hey brother, I appreciated your recent question and comments about feeling anxious in life and marriage. You mentioned being anxious and fearful all the time but unable to capture any of it. I relate! Especially when you described those anxious thoughts as "ping-pong...

How Men Become Undone, and How It Can Lead To Wholeness

How Men Become Undone, and How It Can Lead To Wholeness

Then one day, often just after a “more trail marathon,” like a vacation, home renovation, or big holiday, our wives say some dreadful words.
“I love you, but I’m not in love with you.”
“I think I want a divorce.”
“Yes… I *am* having an affair.”
“I can’t give you what you want.”
“I need to find myself.”

Is your wife’s painful past behind your lack of intimacy?

Is your wife’s painful past behind your lack of intimacy?

Many of these men are in sexless or sexless or sex-starved relationships. They feel a deep lack of far more than sex but of deep, connected emotionally-satisfying intimacy. In fact, that’s usually their chief frustration and complaint.

How One Sentence Over Cheeseburgers Ended Limbo In My Marriage

How One Sentence Over Cheeseburgers Ended Limbo In My Marriage

For almost twenty years, I lived as a serf, disappointed that my needs never seemed met and exhausted from the constant asking and angling for more respect, appreciation, validation, love, sex, passion, connection, and free time to myself. “This isn’t fair! This isn’t what partnership was supposed to be about!”

The Missing Ingredient in Most Marriage Rescue Recipes

The Missing Ingredient in Most Marriage Rescue Recipes

Many men embrace conditional regard thinking it’s how they can create and enforce good personal boundaries. In fact, the opposite is true. Men with conditional regard for others require things from others that they can’t control.

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