To Be a Man: A Guide to True Masculine Power - Brossura

Masters, Robert Augustus, Ph.d.

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ISBN 10: 1683641280 ISBN 13: 9781683641285

Casa editrice: Sounds True, 2018

Riassunto

Many men—despite achieving great jobs and lifestyles—find themselves burdened with dissatisfaction, disconnection, and self-doubt. Robert Augustus Masters has helped thousands of men work through such issues, by facing their unresolved wounds and shame, bringing their head, heart, and guts into full-blooded alignment.

With To Be a Man, this acclaimed psychotherapist and relationship expert offers a groundbreaking and deeply insightful guide to masculine power and fulfillment.

In this book, readers will explore:
· How your past may be dominating your present
· Shame in its healthy and unhealthy forms, and how to make wise use of it
· How vulnerability can be a source of strength
· Emotional literacy—an essential skill for relational well-being
· Releasing sex from the obligation to make you feel better
· How to disempower your inner critic
· Bringing your shadow (whatever you’ve disowned in yourself) out of the dark
· What women need from men
· Understanding and outgrowing pornography
· Discovering the heartland of true masculine power

If you’ve read your share of popular advice on relationships and being a man—but realize on a gut level that it’s going to take some serious inner work—To Be a Man is a fantastic entry into the modern challenge of embracing a mindful, considerate, passionate, and fully embodied masculinity. Join Robert Augustus Masters to discover what’s needed to enter a manhood as strongly empowered as it is vulnerable, a manhood at home with intimate relationship and with life itself.

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Praise for "To Be a Man""
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Any book that unveils the male mystique with empathy and compassion, helping men understand themselves and helping women understand men, and that helps the culture understand the masculine dilemma should be hailed as a miracle. This is what Robert Augustus Masters does in "To Be a Man." Every man should read it as autobiography, every woman should read it as revelation, and our culture should embrace it as a healing balm.
Harville Hendrix, PhD, author of "Getting the Love You Want "and co-author (with Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD) of "Making Marriage Simple" " "A masterpiece of transformational wisdom.
Alan Clements, author of "Instinct for Freedom "and" A Future to Believe In" " " Robert Augustus Masters has written a powerful guide for men that integrates rigor and receptivity, aggression and authority, vulnerability and potency. With highly developed emotional intelligence, and a nuanced understanding of adult development including the importance of shadow work, Masters delivers a vision of mature, embodied male empowerment. "To Be a ""Man" is a fearless book from a master of psycho-emotional healing and awakening.
Diane Musho Hamilton, author of "Everything Is Workable: A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution" Masters insights populate every page of this compelling book, and offer creative ways of thinking about many of our era s most complex and controversial issues, among them, pornography, sexual violence, militarism and war, the effects of trauma on men s psyches and identities, and much more.
Jackson Katz, PhD, author of "The Macho Paradox" and "Leading Men," and creator of the award-winning films "Tough Guise" and "Tough Guise 2" In this essential book, Robert Augustus Masters challenges current ideas about what it means to be a man," "and explores crucial gender issues that affect every man, boy, woman, and girl on our planet. By uncoupling anger from aggression, sexuality from rape and porn, and masculinity from brutality, Robert supports men and boys in reclaiming the sacredness, magnificence, and true power of healthy masculinity.
Karla McLaren, author of "The Language of Emotions" and "The Art of Empathy"
After thirty years of pioneering men's work, if I were to write "the" classic handbook for men this would be it. "To Be a Man "calls out the warrior to do battle inside, to find authentic masculine power, allowing truly intimate relationships with women, other men, and self.
Bill Kauth, cofounder of "The ManKind Project" and author of "A Circle of Men" and "We Need Each Other" " " " To Be a Man "is a book every man should read, especially if they long for their deepest sense of inner peace and wholeness. It's honest. Raw. Thorough. Deep. Such an important book!
Mary Allen, author of "The Power of Inner Choice" " " I have rarely heard such textured thinking from anyone: subtle energetic distinctions on the continuum of destructive and wholesome anger; the willingness to de-normalize pornography and a range of sexual and nonsexual immaturities that many would defend as being myself; the willingness to boldly put happiness as the basis of grown-up sex. The world has rarely seen a man who has worked his own process as Masters has, producing a brilliant, compassionate, paradigm-exploding instruction manual for any man or woman on the planet. What a totally beautiful, brilliant, fearless, and amazing book!
Nancy Dreyfus, Psy.D, author of "Talk to Me Like I'm Someone You Love" "To Be a Man" dissects the three words that echo in every man s psyche: Be a man! As a seasoned therapist, Masters identifies the accompan --Harville Hendrix, PhD, author of Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples and coauthor (with Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD) of Making Marriage Simple

"In this essential book, Robert Augustus Masters challenges current ideas about what it means to be a man, and explores crucial gender issues that affect every man, boy, woman, and girl on our planet. By uncoupling anger from aggression, sexuality from rape and porn, and masculinity from brutality, Robert supports men and boys in reclaiming the sacredness, magnificence, and true power of healthy masculinity."
--Karla McLaren, author of The Language of Emotions and The Art of Empathy

"A masterpiece of transformational wisdom."
--Alan Clements, author of Instinct for Freedom and A Future to Believe In

"Masters' insights populate every page of this compelling book, and offer creative ways of thinking about many of our era's most complex and controversial issues, among them pornography; sexual violence; militarism and war; the effects of trauma on men's psyches and identities; and much more."
--Jackson Katz, PhD, author of The Macho Paradox and Leading Men, and creator of the award-winning films Tough Guise and Tough Guise 2

"A brilliant, compassionate, paradigm-exploding instruction manual for any man--or woman--on the planet. What a fearless and amazing book!"
--Nancy Dreyfus, PsyD, author of Talk To Me Like I'm Someone You Love

L'autore

Robert Augustus Masters
Robert Augustus Masters, PhD, is an integral psychotherapist, relationship expert, and spiritual teacher whose work blends the psychological and physical with the spiritual, emphasizing embodiment, emotional literacy, and the development of relational maturity. He is the author of fourteen books, including Transformation through Intimacy and Spiritual Bypassing.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Sounds True
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1683641280
• ISBN 13: 9781683641285
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 291