by Carl Mothes | Dec 18, 2025 | Mens Therapy BLOG, Uncategorized
And now for the star: Resolve. Some may think him unnecessary, perhaps a bit too subtle to be the star. But they would be wrong. This role is necessary and as we’ll see, deserving of top-billing for his special talent of mitigation and manifestation. You see, there...
by Carl Mothes | Dec 4, 2025 | Mens Therapy BLOG, Uncategorized
Well, it’s going to be a new year soon. So what? What’s changed from last year? What’s remained the same? Perhaps the idea of making New Year’s resolutions has become overly overplayed. But perhaps so has the mocking backlash against such a beginning point for change....
by Carl Mothes | Nov 13, 2025 | Mens Therapy BLOG, Uncategorized
This will be another post in the subcategory of the “problem of distancing from nature,” introduced in a previous post. Here we’ll explore distancing not in the physical sense but in the emotional-experiential sense. There’s a common technique in Cognitive Behavioral...
by Carl Mothes | Nov 7, 2025 | Mens Therapy BLOG, Uncategorized
“My patients?” “My clients?” “The dudes I work with?”How do I describe my clientele? I struggle with this. “Patients” refers to the medical model and indicates a status differentiation that I dislike—none of us have figured “it” out. “Clients” comes across as if we’re...
by Carl Mothes | Sep 23, 2025 | Mens Therapy BLOG, Uncategorized
I think it’s safe to assume we all regard trust and truth as important, good, and even worth striving for. But why? Maybe your answer is that these concepts are just inherently so. As usual, let’s dig a bit deeper, and also lay groundwork for the following post, which...
by Carl Mothes | May 16, 2025 | Mens Therapy BLOG, Uncategorized
Expectations in a relationship (romantic, life partner, etc.), specifically misunderstood, misaligned, mis- or non-communicated expectations, are by far the largest contributor to relationship problems. I have no idea if this is empirically correct, but dammit if it...
