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If You Think Your Marriage Is Over, Give It One More Year
Relationship Guru Mort Fertel is often asked: “How do we know when it’s time to give up on our marriage?”If you’re considering divorce, I suggest first trying to make it work for at least one more...
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9 Misfortunes Everyone Experiences That You Don’t Realize Are Blessings In...
Turn the way that you think of these common occurrences on their head—and transform your life in the process.—I’m not a religious person. In fact, I’m anti-religious — if that’s a thing. I believe...
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I Hit Rock Bottom 5 Years Ago and Then I Became the Happiest Man Ever
I’ve always lived somewhere on the outskirts of authentic connection. ♦◊♦In my avoidance of meaningful relationships, I had bought into the lie that my fear sold me: that I must do it alone. This...
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How Fear and Shame Are Killing The Modern Man
If you can’t handle your s**t, can’t keep it together, then you aren’t a real man….right?—Most of our parents, if you are a Gen X’er or a Boomer, grew up with the idea that manhood meant having your...
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3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Help People In Need
He did all he could to save his mom but realized you shouldn’t always help people in need.—“F#%k!” There was no better word to describe how I felt at that moment as I sat on my bed feeling dazed and...
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Putin and Trump to Save the World…from Themselves (#First100Days)
Welcome to #First100Days!The #First100Days series will “bear witness” to the next 13 weeks of the Trump administration and the climate in America and then respond openly in writing, dialogue, and...
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Rock Bottom; My Experience and How I Chose to Rise Again
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”– J.K. RowlingA little over a year ago, I hit rock bottom financially and it could also be said I hit rock bottom emotionally as...
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Feel Like Shit? Read This.
Okay so maybe you feel like shit. We all can get low sometimes. In fact, every single human being on the face of this planet can claim they’ve felt bottom of the barrel shitty at some point in life....
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Why We Wait For A Crisis – And What To Do Differently
We all know someone who’s hit “rock bottom”.Even celebrities who seemed to “have it all” are not immune: Brad Pitt, Robert Downey Jr., Hugh Grant, Mickey Rourke, Ben Affleck, Michael Vick, Lawrence...
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9 Life Lessons I Learned At Rock Bottom
Embed from Getty Images—Not everybody will experience something in life that completely alters your world in such an extreme way that you plummet all the way to rock bottom, whether it’s the death of...
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I don’t know what’s worth fighting forOr why I have to screamI don’t know why I instigateAnd say what I don’t meanI don’t know how I got this wayI know it’s not alrightSo I’m breaking the habitI’m...
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One of the Worst Myths of Recovery is that You Need to Hit “Rock Bottom”...
You have lost it all. You are in a crack house, alone. Needles. Hookers. No food. Shit everywhere. Rock bottom will only set us up for more failure, rather than leaving in tact the hope, energy and...
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Climbing the Stairway to Success Isn’t Easy
There are plenty of moments of emotions running high, intense frustration, anger, and sinking disappointment, and I know every single one of these feelings all too well…When I eventually hit rock...
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Why Men Should Give Up Self-Medicating for Self-Care
When I gave up smoking–and went back to it, and then gave it up again–I realized that nothing goes as well with vice except for other vices.Giving up smoking makes you want to smoke–to celebrate, to...
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Can I Tell You a Secret?
— I’ve written probably close to 200 articles for The Good Men Project over the past 3+ years. Most of which have been about self-improvement or life coaching of some sort. I mean, I am a life coach...
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Debt Is a Four Letter Word
— For most of my adult life, I never really considered debt a four letter word. You know the type I mean. Those coarse, offensive type you start using as a teenager to act cool around your friends. I...
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You’ve Hit Rock Bottom…Okay, Now What?
— “We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first step toward liberation and strength. Our admissions of personal powerlessness finally turn out to be firm bedrock upon which...
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