Available Late 2012
I didn’t want to write a book on how to not be gay. Being more than twenty years into my own journey out of same–sex attraction at the time of this writing—and with the advantage of fifteen years experience as a therapist working with hundreds of other men on that same journey—I have developed some very strong beliefs about what it takes to grow beyond same–sex attraction. Among the most core of those beliefs is that we are strongest and most resilient when we feel whole as men. So rather than writing another book that laments the problems of homosexuality, I’ve written a book about being whole. We have enough of the former and precious few of the latter.
Masculine wholeness brings fulfillment, joy, and a sense of inner peace and power—strong antidotes for same–sex attraction. But whole masculinity is a concept that is as mysterious as it is mundane. Masculinity is around us all the time and yet we are hard–pressed to define it. On the simplest level, masculinity may be described as the expressions of maleness—that which is spontaneously manifested by men when they are connected to their maleness. We can understand it best by watching how it is expressed through other men. When men are disconnected from their maleness, they appear to be “unmasculine”—they don’t reflect maleness. When they are connected to their maleness, masculinity is their natural expression of self. When men are living from their “shadow” side, we see their masculinity as dark and ugly. But when they are whole, they reflect a masculinity that seems full of power and grace. The manifestations of maleness are diverse, appearing in literally billions of unique forms around the world. Indeed, every male reflects aspects of the way of maleness.
Becoming a Whole Man and its accompanying journal are ideal texts for group study.
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