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Anxious Masculinity—How Things Fall Apart
Deconstructing the habit of anxiety—and "failing" as a man to make space for something new.
 • Bowen Dwelle
Eighteen essays about addiction, masculinity, creativity, and intuition
As well as anxiety, fitness, sobriety, self-discipline, purpose, love, adventure, pain yoga, intuition, the collective unconscious, psychedelics…
 • Bowen Dwelle
E11 / Generative Action with Fernando Desouches
Listen now (45 mins) | The New Macho, the limitations of progressive masculinity, sustainability in marketing, leading through service, generative…
 • Bowen Dwelle
Sex at Dawn, live at Budokon
Vantasy Island, wild water, Nature Boner aka ecosexuality, the Thrill of Victory, jiujitsu, Sex at Dawn, Chris Ryan, Cameron Shayne, masculinity…
 • Bowen Dwelle
E08 / Sex is Better Sober with Kenyon Phillips
Listen now (48 mins) | Human animals, addiction, marriage, surprise fatherhood, manhood, masculinity, money, the illusion of security, and getting our…
What I've Learned from Ten Brothers and Teachers
Adam Gayner, Roddy McDowell, Lucas Krump, T Callahan, Bob Conlin, Anthony David Adams, Robert Ellis, Kenyon Phillips, Noah Rainey, and James Brown on…
 • Bowen Dwelle
Sept 2022 open thread: not being (or being) a parent, openness, masculinity—and...audio.
Hello everybody!
 • Bowen Dwelle
E10 / Everyday Flow with James Brown
Listen now (52 mins) | Flow, presence, Vedic meditation, intuition, fatherhood, adoption, giving things up, moving past alcohol, freedom, discipline…
 • Bowen Dwelle and JAMES BROWN
What I'm Reading, September 2022
Saxx underwear, the Open Library, Meghan Daum, Frans de Wall, Grayson Perry, Brian Broome, Kim Stanley Robinson, Norah Vincent, Loic Le Meur, Carl Erik…
 • Bowen Dwelle
It's Not a Struggle to Find Good Male Role Models
And, it’s time we got our heads screwed on straight about the ”patriarchy.”
 • Bowen Dwelle
What I'm Reading, July–August 2022
John Wineland, Raymond Chandler, Lauren Hough, Rob Halford, Traver Boehm, Melissa Febos, Tabitha Lasley, and Dorothy Carrington
 • Bowen Dwelle
What I'm Reading, Nov 2022
Maia Szalavitz, Liz Goldwyn, John Paul Brammer, Tim Kreider, Holly Whitaker, Connor Beaton / Mantalks, Bill Maeda, Jamie Wheal, and Bill McKibben on why…
 • Bowen Dwelle
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