Useful Nonsense Part 2: You Do Not Live in a Bounce House
On acceptance, pain vs. suffering, and why fighting your reality only makes it worse.
Useful Nonsense Part 1: Your Puppet Master Is Just a Guy Who Likes Puppets
An introduction to cognitive defusion, the ACT skill that helps you stop mistaking your own thoughts for orders.
Useful Nonsense: How to Out-Dumb Your Own Anxious Brain
The first entry in a new series on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and why outsmarting your anxious thoughts never works.
Should I Join a Men's Group?
Why individual therapy alone often can't do what a room full of other men can.
The OON Guide: How to Use Your Insurance Benefits at a Private-Pay Therapy Practice
Out-of-network health insurance and how to use your benefits at a private-pay psychotherapy practice.
"Inside the Manosphere": What Louis Theroux Got Wrong
Louis Theroux's new Netflix documentary on the Manosphere gets a lot right about the problem, and almost nothing right about the solution.
The Art of Forgetfulness
Why the solution to problem-solving is learning how to forget.
The Friendship Recession: Why Your "Golf Buddies" Are Not Enough
Men connect side-by-side instead of face-to-face. That's not the same as friendship, and it's costing us more than we realize.
On Fostering Emotional Democracy
A paradigm shift in how we think about our feelings: all emotions have a place.
5 Ways Therapy Can Help with Your Drinking or Drug Use
Addiction, recovery, and the process of change in therapy.