Key points

Storytelling can help boys and men access their emotions safely and naturally.

Myths offer frameworks to revise the past and reclaim one's identity.

Healing begins with self-awareness and non-judgmental curiosity that enable one to build adaptive resources.

Snap the Whip (1872) by Winslow Homer Source: Butler Institute of American Art / Public Domain

This post is part two of a two-part series.

In a guest essay featured on the front page of the Opinion section of the New York Times on Sunday, August 17, 2025, “ Boy Crisis of 2025, Meet the ‘Boy Problem’ of the 1900s ,” the social theorists Robert D. Putnam and Richard V. Reeves described how the problems boys and young men in the United States face today—technological change, immigration, growing socioeconomic inequal

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