Fear is one of the most powerful words in the English language. Heck in any language. For it refers to something primal. Something that we feel deep within ourselves. An emotion, that all of us have felt from time to time. That all of us must feel from time to time. But what is fear…

Failure. Let that word ring in your head. Think of the times you have heard it. Think of the specific contexts in which this term was used? Has it ever been directed at you? How did you feel in those moments when you have felt like a ‘failure’? Not a great one I reckon. Moving…

Let’s start with a provocative point. In the United States boys who are raised in single parent households are more likely to fall prey to violent crime, drop out of school, end up in gangs and become delinquent. Studies have shown that being apart of the single-parent family unit is one of the foremost indicators…

In answering the question of what makes a masculine man, we need to start by understanding what it means to be a man? As a start, if you look up the word ‘masculine’ you are likely to encounter terms like ‘macho’, ‘tough’, ‘strapping’, and ‘virile’. Terms which most of us are likely to form some…

If you happened to be someone living in a Western nation, the Anglo-American world specifically, you would be hard-pressed to come by the word ‘masculinity’, unless it is in association with something negative, problematic, controversial, or toxic. The words ‘toxic’ and ‘masculinity’ have become conceptual bedfellows, in that it has become almost impossible to separate…