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Books, talks, and conversations Joshua Nathaniel Reid Ollswang recommends for our men's group participants—active, prospective, and alumni—and for anyone drawn to the work of reaching each other.
Man stands between what he has become and what he is to be. If it were not for this tension between a closed past and an open future, there would be no need to oppose an ideal to the actual. But man is not just another fact and as such complete; he has to choose what he is to be. The tension between past and future forces man to distinguish what he should be from what he has become. Man is in search of an ideal; yet in searching for this ideal, he only seeks to become truly himself.
— Karsten Harries
“Active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching… Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science”
— Dostoevsky
On Relationships
Can be read solo or with partners
On Men
Understanding Women's Embodied Experience
Good books to help us understand the women in our lives
Videos & Podcasts
To watch or listen while doing other things
Podcasts
For Potential Fathers
Compulsivity
Shame
Infidelity & Re-commitment
Infidelity & Discernment
Philosophy
Somatic Healing
Spiritual
For Clinicians
For other clinicians also interested in this work
Research
Recovery Communities
And their books
Pamphlets & Tools
Things you can search online to find, print, and keep nearby
I am curious to know where my feet stand—and what this is flooding me, childhood or manhood—and the hunger that crosses the bridge between.
— Walt Whitman