Besides your father, did you have a scoutmaster, teacher, coach, or pastor play a vital role in your upbringing and manhood development?
Perhaps it was a grandfather or uncle?
In our diaspora society today, we are often moving around and away from extended family to go off to college, pursue careers, or enter military service.
But for most of human history it wasn't like this!
In fact, up until the early 1900's and the advent of the industrial revolution, we were primarily an agrarian culture globally. We grew up farming with our fathers or acting as apprentices daily to whatever his trade was such as blacksmithing or carpentry.
BetterMan CEO Dr Chris Harper shares his passion in this episode about wrestling with intergenerational relationships, especially for the multitudes of young men today who grew up in single parent or absent father homes.
Think of the 2003 movie Secondhand Lions with Robert Duvall and Michael Caine.
How do they fill the holes once they are adults?
How do they unpack their baggage and find healing for their wounds?
How do they define healthy positive manhood?
It takes an older man!
Tune in and hear our discussion about this extremely important topic and discover ways to overcome the awkwardness in seeking and finding a mentor
Learn more about Harp and BetterMan at www.betterman.com or visit his blog on Substack titled "the good trouble blog"
Visit www.thesavagepath.com for more on David, his book The Savage Path: A Memoir of Modern Masculinity, and the Savage Path Ministries Corp.
