MY WOUNDS AS A MAN

We talk a lot about the wounded feminine, but little about the masculine, even though it is just as bruised. There aren’t many examples for men to embody the sacred masculine. They find themselves labeled macho, womanizers, materialists, and emotionally disabled! Men are changing and no longer identify with all these societal models. They are sensitive, seeking love and tenderness while experiencing a loss of direction. They can no longer be satisfied with a career, with the role of the strong, brute, and insensitive. Men, like women, are seeking meaning in their lives, in their existence, to be recognized for who they truly are. To open up about what truly matters to them, to fulfill themselves while expressing their feelings and emotions. Men need to be welcomed just as much as women… It’s time to bury the hatchet. No longer against each other, but with each other! We have so much to offer each other, to discover in our differences, our aspirations, our strengths and our weaknesses. The healing of the masculine is intrinsically linked to that of the feminine… One cannot heal without the other, one cannot reveal itself without the other.

Masculinity is called to transform itself just as much as femininity on our planet.

If you are a woman, give these men space to reveal themselves…

And if you are a man, offer your authenticity, expand into your vulnerability; it is the path to your reconciliation.—-Translation of an excerpt from Jessie Birra