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Navigating the Midlife Rumble: Contemplative musings on the arduous battle to recover the masculine soul.

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The day was July 8th or 9th, 2025, and I was on the second solo night of my vision fast in the woods of the Blue Ridge Mountains outside Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Equipped with two tarps, paracord, a sleeping bag, a pillow, a few gallon...

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    I'm a boy dad x 2, film & commercial director, screenwriter, and a Jungian coach-in-training. My work explores the psychospiritual depths of fathering, and the state of the modern masculine soul.

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