Happy, confident, positive, useful, included, loved ?. What if you don’t ?

The way we feel about ourselves is the key to having a positive or negative life experience, and success, wealth, family, and social standing are no guarantee of happiness.

We can feel happy and in control of our lives one minute, but equally, sad, anxious, angry, afraid the next. All emotions serve important functions in our life experience, all are useful. We just need to understand them and keep them in context. 

As men, we struggle with difficult thoughts and emotions. However, we have never been taught how to express them in a meaningful way and the coping strategies do use are at best temporary distractions. Alcohol, drugs, food etc. do not provide long term solutions.

With 3/4 of all suicides being men, we need to find a meaningful way to reduce our mental suffering.