If you are anything like me; a man who thinks he can make personal changes and create a new version of the man I want to be, on my own….. we can’t, we need an outlet, people to talk to. Change something, bring something new into our everyday - new patterns, new hobbies, new people around us. Unless we have a mind quake and something from the outside world that impacts us so profoundly, that it jolts us from our comfortable behaviours, we will always struggle to impact on ours

In these posts about mens mental health I often mention the word ‘everyday’ and there is a reason for this. I touched on it earlier in Movember; our patterns of behaviour may not seem that destructive or limiting because we are decent folk but if we do or say something that we feel awkward about this often leads to rationalising it. A way to make ourselves feel okay about what happened. It’s normal, we do this everyday. But if this process leads to us not dealing with the fee

DAY 12: What I loved and still love about philosophy is the foundation of reason it was built upon. I did study the subject at A’ level but I realise that I always had a lean towards self questioning, meaty, existential ones at that. Sometimes the questioning led to indecision, which wasn’t that helpful and hadn’t really stood me in good stead later on in life until I looked more closely at what was holding me back. At that point, I realised I hadn’t been asking the right que