by David Eshleman | Jul 21, 2023 | Building Relationship, Embracing Creativity, Exploring Life, Loving Ourselves, Men's Work, Parental Wounds, Purpose, Shame & Criticism, Suffering
“True strength, and growth, comes from going into what is uncomfortable. This is one task of the masculine principle.” -David Eshleman Are you a man carrying the “grief of women?” Maybe you hold an internalized sense of shame, guilt...
by David Eshleman | Jul 21, 2023 | Shame & Criticism, Suffering
As Robert Bly said, the antidote to shame is to get closer to the wildman or wildwoman inside us. To grow up in a shame family, where the value taught was to be afraid, to be put down, less than, is in itself a wounding. Shame can be felt, verbalized, modelled...
by David Eshleman | Jul 21, 2023 | Parental Wounds, Shame & Criticism, Suffering
If you are depressed, beat down, numb, addicted, or carry a wound from the past, you are likely in touch with a great deal of suffering. Chances are you are searching for a way away from the suffering that you are carrying. Ironically, the counter intuitive approach...
