Midlife Mastery Journal

Midlife offers you the opportunity to rediscover and, once again, embrace your uniqueness. While you’ve been spending your life striving to identify yourself with your cultural and social role, midlife whispers in your ear that may no longer be necessary.

We shouldn’t imagine that men’s assuming of a support role in our socio-economic development will be a bad thing. Women have been serving in that capacity for untold generations.

The stress of maintaining their manhood takes an enormous emotional and physical toll on most men. However, because they must be self-sufficient and emotionally restricted in order to maintain their manhood, they can never admit their emotional or physical pain, nor can they ask for help.

What alternatives do the men of the 21st Century have? I believe that we’re experiencing not only the midlife transition of the ‘boomer generation, but also the midlife transition of humanity itself as a species. It’s overdue for men to take out the checklist and do some serious (and fearless) introspection.

From your youngest years, the underlying presuppositions of an individualistic culture such as ours molds your expectations of what ‘adult’ life should look like: what’s ‘normal’, what’s ‘unusual’, and, most especially, what’s ‘abnormal.’