Eric FitzMedrud, Ph.D.

02/24/2025

Chatbots posing as therapists may encourage users to commit harmful acts, the nation’s largest psychological organization warned federal regulators.

05/22/2024

Christopher Veal is a podcast host, author, and coach who embodies his talk on his show. When I met with him for this podcast episode (link in comments) we were vulnerable with each other. This kind of embodied modeling of vulnerability is such a joy to experience, and it makes some of the best podcast interviews for the listener.

We talked about things like male vulnerability, men's experience of being versus doing, choice versus control, navigating monogamy and nonmonogamy in the new relationship landscape, and the two choices you always have in life.

05/21/2024

If you're a nonfiction author looking to make an impact on the world (especially providing healing, help, or hope) but you're not sure how to make that BIG LEAP from what you know in your core to a book in the world, please consider joining Wonderwell 's Big Leap Retreat.

This team of people is exceptional and guided me through the publication process. I now owe a big part of having an award-winning book to this team!

https://wonderwell.press/big-leap

05/20/2024

My latest podcast episode on PhilosoShe was published on Friday. In this conversation, we discussed men's desire, the process of change in our relationship behaviors, and, of course, consent.

It was delightful to talk with a 20-something about these issues. They are continuing to work on changing relationship patterns and beginning to teach us what we couldn't see.

Today Dr. Eric FitzMedrud and I discuss questions surrounding the inequalities in relationships such as:What can partners of men do to make it easier for men to open up emotionally?What does your conversation around consent look like?How do you ap...

05/15/2024

I had a delightfully engaging conversation with Bruce Chalmer and Judy Alexander on Couples Therapy in Seven Words. I shared the origin story of how I came to this work, and then we talked a little about polyamory and a LOT about how consent can be hot!

What leads someone to recognize that they are polyamorous? How can getting consent be sexy? How can men learn to “be a better a**hole”? These are some of the...

05/13/2024

What a pleasure to sit and learn from experts in compassion and relationships today on the panel with Sidewalk Talk.

05/13/2024

Join me later today at 12p Pacific/3p Eastern on Instagram or LinkedIn for this dynamic panel discussion on Power and Privilege in relationships.

You can find me at on both platforms.

05/03/2024

It's official! My book, The Better Man: A Guide to Consent, Stronger Relationships, and Hotter S** is an award-winning book!

This award highlights the fact that the world is hungry for healthy manhood, healthy masculinity, and healthy male s**uality.

Men, we can move forward with feminism, with social justice movements, with racial justice movements, and with economic justice movements.

There is a place for you in this new world.
Your gifts are valuable.
You can learn how to skillfully offer those gifts to your partner and community.
My book shows you how.

And for people partnered with a man, especially a man with a higher desire level than yours, this is the book you wish the man in your life would read. It will not shame him, but it will help him to learn how to be more kind to you about the differences in your desire profiles.

05/01/2024

If you missed this live interview on the Bookum app, you can still watch the recorded version on YouTube.

In our Nook Conversation we talk with Dr. Eric Fitzmedrud author of "The Better Man: : A Guide to Consent, Stronger Relationships, and Hotter S*x"We discuss ...

04/24/2024

In this episode of the Playing With Fire Podcast with Joli Hamilton, we talk about the nuances of consent conversations, the difference between low-bar consent and high-bar consent, jealousy (and what men can do about it when they experience it), and more!

Please check this episode out. And if you're curious about ethical nonmonogamy, this is a great informative podcast on that podcast too.

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joli-hamilton

04/23/2024

On this World Book Day, I invite you to mark your calendar to join me this Thursday for a Bookum Nook Discussion about my book for men. If you're a book nerd, a man struggling in relationship, or a partner of a man trying to understand what might be going on for him, you will find this live conversation illuminating.

Follow the instructions below and join me in the Bookum Community.

04/22/2024

Are you a book nerd? Like the idea of a community of book nerds, nerding out about books? Have you heard of Bookum?

Bookum is a new app dedicated to creating a new social media environment for book nerds by book nerds for book nerds to nerd out about books.

This Thursday at 11a Pacific, I'll be recording an interview live on their app talking about my book. "The Better Man: A Guide to Consent, Stronger Relationships, and Hotter S*x."

Podcasts are great, but this author is looking forward to some hardcore book nerdery.

https://bookumapp.com/

Bookum (Shorthand for “Book Community”) is a dynamic social book clubbing and networking platform for readers and authors alike. Create clubs, join community Nooks (Live Podcasting), and even monetize your bookish-generated content (BGC). Bookum is where ‘Bookish Conversations Happen’ so con...