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 | 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...
by Father Figures | Oct 10, 2025 | Addiction, Featured, Recovery, Relationships, Therapy
Addiction is a kind of runaway train that leaves the station when we stop dealing with our emotions, stop living our fullest lives, and stop wanting to cope with whatever life throws at us. Addiction is a kind of vacation from life that eventually becomes the Vacation...
by Father Figures | Sep 30, 2025 | Featured, General, Therapy
Life seems to get more complicated by the hour these days. Modern life, plugged as it is into a 24/7 news cycle, calls (more like demands) us to respond and in doing so to choose between one version of ourselves or another at a moment’s notice. Even in home life, we...
by Father Figures | Sep 17, 2025 | Family, Father Figures, Featured, LGBT, Men's Issues
Many men have issues with their fathers. Dozens of books have been written on the way that mid-century North American male culture de-emphasized emotional relationships between fathers and sons, and instead focused on competition, stoicism, and independence. As a...
