Folks from across the social spectrum agree that men need to heal and change. Ironically, those same folks (including us!) often mock men when they take steps to try and do so. “Go to therapy” is just as often genuine advice as it is a pithy dismissal of the long road from undoing patriarchal conditioning to the wholeness that hopefully follows. In this episode of Thru Shame, Gabe and Jon discuss the mockery of men’s successful and not-so-successful attempts to reconnect with themselves and how our cultural biases rightly and wrongly shape what even counts as “therapy”.

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