Thanks for sharing this with me, and I'm so glad that you found a way to heal and grow. I wish that for more people of all genders. I work as a professional life coach, something that I've been doing since 2006, so I'm well versed in the ways that people resist confronting themselves and making changes, even if it would make their lives better to do so. I wish it were a more normalized practice, but in a dominance hierarchy social system where everyone else is your competition, and where showing any vulnerability is seen as weakness, particularly for men, it's a tough sell.
I'm glad that you feel optimistic. At this point, I'm really not and I don't think that society is going to shift in more caring and humane directions unless there is some sort of apocolyptic collapse. But, I still show up here day after day, advocating for more understanding of how our social system functions in ways that harm us all, how other cultures don't necessarily live this way, so it's not inevitable, and otherwise just trying to shine a light on cultural narratives that are counter-productive to a more egalitarian world. I don't know what else to do, even if I don't think it makes much of a dent.
