17/10/2025
MEN ❤️
Even though I hold men's retreats I'm still not sure what a man is or what makes a man. I don't feel like I'm in any position to say how a man should be or "this makes you manly".
Because I'm still in my own process of unfolding what it means to be a man. I'm not walking in front. I'm walking side by side. Trying to learn and decipher the fabric of being a man.
What I do know is that when I get together with other men I feel that I get closer to understanding what it means to be a man. In each man I can see a mirror to my own soul and psyche and get clues to this puzzle.
And something magical happens when men get together for a retreat without distractions from everyday obligations and from women.
When I get to play, wrestle, fight, laugh, cry, show my strengths and weaknesses and be held in a circle of men that feel resonance. Then something inside me softens, something inside me remembers, something inside feels like I'm coming home.
When meeting men beyond the labels, masks and roles that we shoulder stoicly, we make way for a bigger transformation inside of us. We birth something new, raw and real.
The alchemy happens in the laughter, in the play, in the resonance but most importantly it happens when we allow ourselves to sob and cry about the things we've suppressed for far too long.
To release that which is no longer serving our journey. When we release our past hurts and disappointment we can truly heal and make way for deeper transformation.
So I thank the men that came out to ManCamp @ Breddas Wakepark last weekend. Thank you for holding up a mirror and showing me who I truly am.
Peace! ✌️❤️
