by Father Figures | Dec 4, 2025 | Men's Issues, Therapy, Women's Issues
“I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.” ― C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul...
by Father Figures | Nov 23, 2025 | Featured, Life Coaching, Relationships, Therapy
Marcel Proust had his temps perdu [lost times], and Thomas Wolfe told us we can’t go home again. The snows of yesteryear have evaporated into thin air, and like them, the days and times of our youth are gone. When we visit an old familiar place, such as an old...
by Father Figures | Nov 11, 2025 | Featured, General, Therapy
Understanding Depression as a Signal When clients tell me they feel depressed, I’m rarely surprised. We’re living through an era marked by collective stress and uncertainty. In the span of just two decades, we’ve witnessed the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center...
by Father Figures | Nov 1, 2025 | Family, Father Figures, Men's Issues, Relationships
In Finding our Fathers, Sam Osherson cites a broad study indicating that only 17 percent of American men had a positive relationship with their fathers. In most cases the father was dead, divorced and missing, chemically impaired, or emotionally absent. If this...
by Father Figures | Oct 22, 2025 | Featured, Relationships
In Western society, being straight (heterosexual) and being in a monogamous relationship (with only one romantic partner at a time) have been seen as the “normal” or ideal ways to live. Because of this, even when same-sex or gender-fluid relationships are...
