Stepping Stones

Stepping Stones
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2019-05-14
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1616498293

In the spiritual successor to the best-selling Touchstones, the author continues to explore masculinity and sobriety. Now well beyond recovery’s trailhead, we confront life itself: it isn’t merely abstinence and coping skills, it’s a triumph. Stepping Stones guides your self-help discovery along its next steps, ensuring your recovery finds inspiration, meaning, and brilliance. For many of us, sobriety began uncomfortably. Treatment and counseling unearthed addiction’s thumbprint—substance use, anger, resentments, and behavioral patterns around sex and intimacy—as well as challenged perspectives about religion and spirituality. As addictive behaviors and mind-sets gave way to both mental health and physical wellness, our new sense of self emerged, and our family and friends supported our continuing transformation. This self-help meditation book is designed for men to keep moving forward in recovery. Recovery is well-earned, but life never slows—nor should it. Stepping Stones advances a person’s recovery so that it emerges as a comfortable journey that stays in stride with a person’s overall life and experiences. It offers insight into the many masculine roles men undertake—father and son, friend and lover—and provides actionable meditations for leading a full life. Life isn’t about recovery; recovery is about life.

Manhood

Manhood
Author: Michael S. Adams
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2010-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1609572483

MANHOOD A Prescription from a Christian Doctor Manhood represents a broad subject that involves a journey extending many years. The journey involves navigating many roads successfully along the way. As a boy advances from being a passenger in a car seat, to eventually a driver of an automobile, a significant amount of growth, education and maturation becomes necessary. Dr. Michael S. Adams discusses a prescription for maneuvering in the correct lanes as a boy matures through the various stages of life. His prescription includes "medicine" that will travel through and connect the mind, body and soul. This book will instruct, challenge and inspire not just boys, but young adults and others seeking answers about true manhood. The life principles reviewed, will lead males-from childhood to adulthood-to achieve an outstanding grade as they cross the finish line known as manhood.

The Dude's Guide to Manhood

The Dude's Guide to Manhood
Author: Darrin Patrick
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1400205484

Discover the path to true masculinity—to an adventurous life of strength, purpose, and clarity. Didn’t we used to understand manhood? Wasn’t there a time once when it was clear and straightforward? Are we lost? Dudes, look around you: The trail we once traveled from boyhood to maturity is now so overgrown, it’s almost impossible to trace. Our vision is blurred, rendering the map that previous generations followed unreadable. Our compass needles are spinning in circles, making navigation impossible. We are stuck in dense, dangerous woods, and our communities—the wives, children, friends, and colleagues we could be influencing—are suffering as a result. It can be tempting to give up and, like so many men today, simply exist, but take heart: Now is not the time for men to abandon our quest. We can discover the path to true masculinity—to an adventurous life of strength, purpose, and clarity. In The Dude’s Guide to Manhood, pastor, author and dude Darrin Patrick charts a course back toward real manliness, mapping out a vision to help men find significance and influence in today’s broken, mixed-message culture. Revealing his own frailties and missteps, Patrick doesn’t preach at you but walks with you on a journey toward healing and wholeness. Filled with timeless wisdom, accessible insights and practical guidance, The Dude’s Guide to Manhood issues an encouraging and doable call to all men, whatever your age or stage. We need not settle for wandering aimlessly through our days, wounded, weak, and passive. Instead, we can get back on the trail, embrace our gifts while facing our imperfections, and trust the God of new beginnings to lead us into all that we are destined to become: forgiven, connected, determined, teachable, content, heroic, and so much more.

True Manhood

True Manhood
Author: William Landels
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1861
Genre: Conduct of life
ISBN:

Manhood on the Line

Manhood on the Line
Author: Stephen Meyer
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0252098250

Stephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth century America. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles of mass production, workers created a white-dominated culture that defended its turf against other racial groups and revived a crude, hypersexualized treatment of women that went far beyond the shop floor. At the same time, they recast unionization battles as manly struggles against a system killing their very selves. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Meyer recreates a social milieu in stunning detail--the mean labor and stolen pleasures, the battles on the street and in the soul, and a masculinity that expressed itself in violence and sexism but also as a wellspring of the fortitude necessary to maintain one's dignity while doing hard work in hard world.

Men and Women Adrift

Men and Women Adrift
Author: Nina Mjagkij
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 1997-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0814755429

The YMCA and the YWCA have been an integral part of America's urban landscape since their emergence almost 150 years ago. Yet the significant influence these organizations had on American society has been largely overlooked. Men and Women Adrift explores the role of the YMCA and YWCA in shaping the identities of America's urban population. Examining the urban experiences of the single young men and women who came to the cities in search of employment and personal freedom, these essays trace the role of the YMCA and the YWCA in urban America from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The contributors detail the YMCA's early competition with churches and other urban institutions, the associations' unique architectural style, their services for members of the working class, African Americans, and immigrants, and their role in defining gender and sexual identities. The volume includes contributions by Michelle Busby, Jessica Elfenbein, Sarah Heath, Adrienne Lash Jones, Paula Lupkin, Raymond A. Mohl, Elizabeth Norris, Cliff Putney, Nancy Robertson, Thomas Winter, and John D. Wrathall.