by Dennis Greeuw | May 19, 2025 | Emotional strength
“Joy is not a luxury. It’s the stuff of survival.” – Ross Gay “We must risk delight. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.” – Jack Gilbert Joy can be complicated, especially when you’ve been through hard things, or...
by Dennis Greeuw | Apr 16, 2025 | Emotional strength
“I think and think and think, I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”— Jonathan Safran Foer Some days, it feels like your brain just won’t shut up. You think of things you said but shouldn’t have said. Or things you didn’t say...
by Dennis Greeuw | Apr 1, 2025 | Emotional strength, Healthy masculinity
“Don’t get too close / It’s dark inside / It’s where my demons hide.” – Imagine Dragons Why Anger Feels So Dangerous for Men A lot of men were never taught how to deal with anger. We were taught to hide it, fear it, or let it explode. Some of us, like me, shut down...
by Dennis Greeuw | Mar 24, 2025 | Emotional strength
Emotional Intelligence, Vulnerability, and the New Strength “Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.”— Fred Rogers The strong action hero. The bumbling sitcom dad. The stoic cool kid. The wimpy nerd. These were...
