The Emotional Lives of Men: Raising Boys, Building Connection & Healing Relationships

Why do so many men struggle to express their emotions, build intimacy, or communicate what they’re really feeling?In this episode of Mind, Money & Medicine, Favour sits down with Gloria Vanderhorst, a psychologist with 50 years of experience working with children, adults, couples, and families, to explore the emotional development of men and boys and how cultural expectations can leave males disconnected from their emotions.Gloria shares what she has learned from decades of working with boys and men, including why emotional patterns formed in childhood can follow us into adulthood and affect our marriages, families, and relationships. We also explore the role fathers play in raising emotionally healthy sons, why connection is essential to our wellbeing, and how understanding our personal history can help us change the way we relate to others.From raising boys to navigating marriage and learning to understand ourselves more deeply, this conversation offers practical insight into emotional growth, mental health, relationships, and becoming more connected to ourselves and the people we love.Gloria is also the author of the New York Times bestselling journal book Read, Reflect, Respond: The 3 R’s of Growth and Change.Read Gloria’s weekly essays and explore more of her work:
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