How To Take Other People’s Moods Less Personally (And Help Them Relax About Yours)

What’s the biggest gift you can give your loved ones? Help them to take your bad moods less personally. Thirty years ago, the wisest professor I had at UC Berkeley, Meji Singh, dropped this truth bomb on me: “John, we make the mistake of taking 95% of what other...

Bids for Attention: How to Not Emotionally Ghost Your Partner

Bids for Attention: How to Not Emotionally Ghost Your Partner (and End Up Lonely with a Dog That Judges You) By Dr. John Schinnerer, your friendly neighborhood shrink and emotional survival guide GuideToSelf.com | LoveIsntEnough.net | TheEvolvedCaveman.com   ...

The Man Box (a.k.a. Why Men Are Screwed and What to Do About It)

Let’s talk about dudes. Manfolk. Bros. Gentlemen. Kings. Whatever you call yourself, chances are, if you were born with a Y chromosome and grew up on this planet, you got stuffed into The Man Box before you could spell “testosterone.” I’ve been working with men for...

“Dude, Take Off the Mask” — Authentic Masculinity and the Secret Every Man’s Hiding Per a Top Men’s Therapist

“Dude, Take Off the Mask” — Authentic Masculinity and the Secret Every Man’s Hiding Dr. John Schinnerer | GuideToSelf.com | TheEvolvedCaveman.com | LoveIsntEnough.net  You ever feel like you’re faking it? Like you’re showing up to the world in some Frankenstein...

Anger Management for Men: Why You’re Mad as Hell—and It’s Destroying Your Relationships

By Dr. John Schinnerer | GuideToSelf.com |  LoveIsntEnough.net | TheEvolvedCaveman.com  Let’s cut to the truth—anger is killing your relationships, realtionships at work and at home, and in many cases, it’s doing so quietly and consistently. Unchecked anger is the...

The Crisis of Disconnected Young Men:  Weed, Wi-Fi, and WTF Is Going On?

By Dr. John Schinnerer, Host of The Evolved Caveman Podcast   Let’s be honest: A lot of young men today are lost—like “took a wrong turn at puberty and now stranded somewhere between apathy and rage with no Wi-Fi” lost. What we’re witnessing isn’t just teenage angst...