Midlife Initiation No One Prepares Men For

<p>Visit: <a href="menstherapy.online/start" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">menstherapy.online/start</a></p><p>The <a href="https://menstherapy.online/what-is-a-midlife-crisis-for-a-man/?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=Blog&utm_campaign=Blog"><u>midlife crisis</u></a> has a stock image problem: sports car, affair, motorcycle, a man trying to be twenty-two again. On this Men&#39;s Therapy Podcast roundtable, host Marc Azoulay brings together three voices who work with men at exactly this turning point. Brooks, a therapist and retreat leader based in Central Iowa with a telehealth practice in Colorado; Desmond Cohen, a counsellor and longtime Man Kind Project facilitator based in Oregon; and Mark Platten, who has spent over two decades in men&#39;s work, now focused specifically on <a href="https://menstherapy.online/midlife-crisis-transformation/?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=Blog&utm_campaign=Blog"><u>midlife</u></a>, andropause, and the men whose partners are moving through perimenopause.</p><p>The conversation moves well past the cliché, tracing the midlife crisis back to an older idea: a reckoning with the ladder you&#39;ve spent your whole life climbing, and whether you ever leaned against the right wall. The panel debates whether this is a modern phenomenon or a timeless one (Brooks points to Dante and The Odyssey), why the timeline seems to be shifting a decade later than it used to, and why roughly two-thirds of midlife divorces in the U.S. are initiated by women rather than men. From there, it gets personal: Robert Bly&#39;s image of the shame men shove into an invisible bag starting in childhood; a real case study of a marriage rebuilt after a hidden affair came to light; and the pattern of &quot;being right&quot; as a childhood survival strategy that quietly wrecks adult relationships. The episode closes on spirituality and altered states, ayahuasca, psilocybin, vision quests, and why Joseph Campbell wouldn&#39;t take a student under 40.</p><p>Connect with PanelBrooks Witter:Website: <a href="https://vidapsychotherapy.com/ " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://vidapsychotherapy.com/ </a>Desmond Cohen:Website: <a href="https://desmondcohencounseling.com/ " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://desmondcohencounseling.com/ </a>Mark J. Platten:Website: <a href="http://markjplatten.com/ " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">http://markjplatten.com/ </a>Resources MentionedIndividual Therapy<a href="https://menstherapy.onl