I have spent a good chunk of my career reading the results sections of studies on men and masculinity, and after a while you can predict them before you turn the page. Pick a harmful outcome; depression, substance use, a reluctance to see a doctor, and somewhere in...
IT'S 3:36 AM ON a Saturday morning. My alarm is set for 4:30am. I've had about four hours of sleep, and I already know that's all I'm getting tonight. I'm awake. Not because I want to be. Because Gloria is. She lies beside me, restless. Every few minutes she twitches,...
BACK HOME IN New Zealand, there were nights the road had already iced over, and I’d pull my gloves on and run anyway. Ten kilometres, every night, for a year. Mates thought I was mad. But getting out the door when everything in you says stay on the couch, that’s been...
FOR MANY TRADIES and small business owners, getting on with the job is part of work culture. This Men’s Health Week is a reminder that ‘pushing through’ doesn’t always mean you’re staying mentally well. Many small business owners are navigating relentless pressure...
I USED TO commute weekly between Brisbane and Sydney for work. Early morning flights, airport lounges, hotel rooms, back-to-back meetings. At the time, I wore the exhaustion and frequent flyer status like a badge of honour. It made me feel important. Needed. Chosen....
According to Dr Zac Seidler, masculinity research has been too focused on finding something that's wrong rather than what's right. And that's exactly why young men are finding direction in radicalisation pipelines
In this deeply personal essay, Perth GP and father Dr Lloyd Evans details the challenges, realities, joys and emotional toll involved in caring for a child with a disability
Devon Keen, founder of men’s mental-health group Lads Coffee Connection on why he's racing HYROX Sydney for the charity Race for Impact
Ahead of Men’s Health Week we take a look at how stress and uncertainty impact tradies and men in small business
What happens when men tie their worth to work?
In the last two decades, our attention span has dropped by over two minutes. Use these neurological blueprints to reclaim your focus
Psychotherapist Geoffrey Price explores the mechanisms that cause you to 'lose it' and reveals how to defuse triggers to avoid a blow up
The manosphere is not just an online problem. It is a cultural one, and it is shaping the world our young people are growing up in, writes Simone Clarke
Confidence comes when you stop trying to minimise your differences and start using them strategically, says Dan Rosenfeld
Writer Jamie Carson takes on hiking, running and swimming naked in the mountains to find out if baring all really can improve mental health
Exploring the unspoken pressures men face around wealth, worth, and responsibility.
Forest shares how facing his pain through psychedelic therapy transformed his life and reshaped his purpose.
