What’s One Thing You Want to Change?

New Year’s Eve Message As we close out one year and begin a new one, it can be a really good time to reflect on how things went and are currently going and set new intentions for what direction we want to head next. Other transition points can be moments and...

Change

Change is Inevitable Back in the day, when there were vending machines everywhere (there are still vending machines, aren’t there?) and people still carried change, there was a vending machine that wasn’t fully functional. On it, the proprietors had taped a sign...

Autopilot Won’t Take You Anywhere New

Have you ever been going along, only to just stop and look around, asking yourself, “How did I get here?” Maybe you meant it in the literal, 3-D sense where you had zoned out, thinking about some other thing, only to realize that your feet, or your driving, stepped in...

Five Common Change-Blocking Patterns

I’ve been life coaching for over a decade now, and there are some familiar patterns and beliefs that commonly show up with clients. Recognizing these change-blocking patterns comes in really handy in supporting clients, because then we can work on shifting the old...

Traveling Through The Contradiction

What kind of a man are you? What kind of a man do you want to be? And what kind of a man do you want others to see you as? Do you want to be seen as a strong man? A powerful man? A real man? Now, would it mean something different if you aspired to be...

Begin Where You Are

For each of us, our life is a journey. We start out with the whole world in front of us, able to go in any direction we choose. At least, that’s what we are told to believe. Really, though, there are many ideas and beliefs that are given to us, either directly...

Between Here and There

Is there a gap between the life you long for and the one you’re currently living? Meaning, when you think of your ideal life, your best life—are you already living it, or is there still a ways to go before you get there?  If you’re already...

Why Do Men’s Work?

You know those situations where things just don’t make sense and don’t quite add up? And you begin to question why things are done a particular way, or why there are certain rules and procedures, and the answer you get is straight out of a Bruce Hornsby song— “That’s...

Rewriting Masculinity

I describe part of the Men’s Work we are doing at Sunrise Journeys as Rewriting Masculinity. So, I wanted to take a moment to talk about what that means and, more importantly, why it matters. Most of us have been programmed with a clear and rigid definition of...

Coaching for Courageous Men

So, what is the Men’s Work that we are doing here at Sunrise Journeys? We see this work as a journey of wellness and discovery for men. Here is an overview: One part of the journey is Introspection. First, by seeking answers to fundamental questions about...