062: Healthy vs Toxic Masculinity

Where have all the good men gone? 

What makes a healthy masculine man? 

Healthy masculinity is based on balance, meekness, strength, humility, vulnerability, accountability, protection, chivalry, boundaries, and will create a space for the emotions of his female partner. The ability to listen with your ears and through your body.

The Calm in the Storm - being able to regulate your nervous system while things are falling apart around you and co-regulate with others instead of escalating the situation. 

Knowing the difference between compassion and empathy. And when to appropriately use one versus the other. 

Yin and Yang (Feminine and Masculine) - balance, complementary, pro-dependent not co-dependent, hold a part of the other in themself. 

Tools for the healthy masculine - Embrace emotions, develop anti-fragility, personal work (meditation, exercise, hobbies, ect.), respect your own boundaries and those of others, look for a strong father figure / role model or become one for a young man, develop assertiveness not aggression, work toward understanding and influence not control and power.

Could part of the decline of Healthy Masculinity be connected to the increased messaging of Toxic Masculinity?