A deeply insightful guide to masculine power and fulfillment, to bring "our head, heart, and guts into full-blooded alignment".
I've got a great job, relationship, and lifestyle. Why do I feel so dissatisfied and disconnected?
Why am I not happier in my intimate relationships?
How do I become more powerful - without becoming a jerk?
Robert Augustus Masters has helped thousands of men address and work through issues like these. What he's found is that the common solution is challenging yet clear: We must face our unresolved wounds, shame, and whatever else is holding us back. We must bring "our head, heart, and guts into full-blooded alignment".
With To Be a Man, this acclaimed psychotherapist and relationship expert offers a groundbreaking and deeply insightful guide to masculine power and fulfillment. He shares what's needed to enter a manhood as empowered as it is vulnerable, as emotionally literate as it is unapologetically alive - a manhood at home with truly intimate relationship.
Listeners will explore:
- How your past may be dominating your present
- Shame in its healthy and unhealthy forms, and how to make wise use of it
- How vulnerability can be a source of strength
- Emotional literacy - an essential skill for relational well-being
- Releasing sex from the obligation to make you feel better
- How to disempower your inner critic
- Bringing your shadow (whatever you've disowned in yourself) out of the dark
- Embodying your natural heroism and persisting regardless of fear
- What women need from men
- Understanding and outgrowing pornography
- Entering the heartland of true masculine power
If you've taken in your share of popular advice on relationships and being a man, but realize on a gut level that it's going to take some serious inner work, To Be a Man offers real guidance. Masters helps you take on this most rewarding of challenges: doing what's needed to fully embody your authentic manhood.