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The Many Faces of Masculinity: Exploring Men’s Identity in the Therapy Room
What happens when men are given space not to perform, but to pause?
Masculinity often arrives wearing a mask, but is desperate to express itself as what it feels it is.
When men come into therapy, they often carry two kinds of weight. One is the story of their life so far, the other is the quiet, but unrelenting pressure of what the world expects a man to be. Over time, I have come to see that exploring masculinity is rarely a side topic. It is often the starting point for understanding how a man relates to himself, to others and to life as a whole. The stuckness deeply felt by many men, is also peppered with the expectation that they need to unstick - but how when they have not necessarily been role-modelled the skills to do so?

