My Father Was an Angry Man
Graham Phoenix’s sons learned from what he did, not from what he said. My son came back from touring in the UK with his band and came to me for advice. He was a punk drummer at the time, energetic...
View ArticleLove Is Not Arousal
Graham Phoenix looks at why kissing his sons helps them to grow. “I’d argue that perhaps the only thing that garners more suspicion than a father being affectionate with his daughter, is a father...
View ArticleGetting Old? Absolutely Not!
Graham Phoenix refuses to get old and expects to become a cantankerous old man. My parents-in-law are visiting: it’s their first trip to Spain. They have the resigned look of people waiting for life...
View Article5 Questions to Reclaim Your Life
In the hills of Andalucia, Graham Phoenix walks and hunts with two dogs in a territory of rocks and heather. And thinks about the unique experience of being male in the context of ‘the only end is...
View ArticleThe Lesson of the Wall: Why My Anger Looked Different to Me from The Inside...
Graham Phoenix often felt the urge to exert control, the need to get people to listen to him. What happened to him when he resorted to violence to be in charge? — I left home and school at the age of...
View ArticleI Want Respect: On Punk Music and Learning Disabilities
Graham Phoenix attends the first night of a Punk Music Tour and discovers what inclusion for those with learning disabilities really means. — There is a lot of talk on The Good Men Project about...
View ArticleSelfishly Good
Jon Magidsohn questions if a man can stay in his comfortable world and still be “good”. Graham Reid Phoenix recently wrote a moving and persuasive article for the Good Men Project asking the...
View ArticleOde to Joy – Sometimes the Old Ones are the Best Ones
Graham Phoenix looks at the power of ‘Ode to Joy’ written in 1785 by German poet, Friedrich Schiller. _____ It uses language generally rejected today with its focus on men and brothers, but it does...
View ArticleMy Father Was an Angry Man
My son came back from touring in the UK with his band and came to me for advice. He was a punk drummer at the time, energetic and fast, with his own idiosyncratic life as an artist and musician. His...
View ArticleLove Is Not Arousal
Graham Phoenix looks at why kissing his sons helps them to grow. “I’d argue that perhaps the only thing that garners more suspicion than a father being affectionate with his daughter, is a father...
View ArticleGetting Old? Absolutely Not!
Graham Phoenix refuses to get old and expects to become a cantankerous old man. My parents-in-law are visiting: it’s their first trip to Spain. They have the resigned look of people waiting for life...
View Article5 Questions to Reclaim Your Life
In the hills of Andalucia, Graham Phoenix walks and hunts with two dogs in a territory of rocks and heather. And thinks about the unique experience of being male in the context of ‘the only end is...
View ArticleThe Lesson of the Wall: Why My Anger Looked Different to Me from The Inside...
Graham Phoenix often felt the urge to exert control, the need to get people to listen to him. What happened to him when he resorted to violence to be in charge? — I left home and school at the age of...
View ArticleI Want Respect: On Punk Music and Learning Disabilities
Graham Phoenix attends the first night of a Punk Music Tour and discovers what inclusion for those with learning disabilities really means. — There is a lot of talk on The Good Men Project about...
View ArticleSelfishly Good
Jon Magidsohn questions if a man can stay in his comfortable world and still be “good”. Graham Reid Phoenix recently wrote a moving and persuasive article for the Good Men Project asking the...
View ArticleOde to Joy – Sometimes the Old Ones are the Best Ones
Graham Phoenix looks at the power of ‘Ode to Joy’ written in 1785 by German poet, Friedrich Schiller. _____ It uses language generally rejected today with its focus on men and brothers, but it does...
View ArticleA Conversation About Men And Relationships
Sat Purusha writes about health, spirituality and masculinity. He explores what masculinity means in relation to the rest of men’s lives. he is also an editor and weekly columnist at The Good Men...
View ArticleWhat Is It About? Success Or Failure?
The route to my soul is becoming clearer, although the answer is not yet obvious. I am close to finding it, but not there yet. I am coming to my peak in terms of working life and involvement with the...
View ArticleMy Father Made Me A Man
Embed from Getty Images — My role is to take this sense of being a man and project it out into the world to help others to see that they too can qualify to achieve manhood. ◊♦◊ Allan Mitiya asked ’Am...
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