Why Subscribe?

Most mental health content isn't written for men. It's written for a general audience and then gestured vaguely in their direction, which is a bit like designing a car for everyone and then being surprised when nobody particularly likes driving it.

This site exists because men in their 40s, 50s and beyond are navigating some of the most significant psychological territory of their lives — identity, purpose, relationships, health, the quiet accumulation of things nobody warned them about — and most of what's available to help them either talks down to them or doesn't talk to them at all.

My newsletter is a fortnightly dispatch: new articles, the occasional reflection that doesn't quite make it onto the site, and sometimes just something worth thinking about. It's informed by a career in psychology and written in the belief that men respond better to honesty and a bit of dry humour.

How will the site develop? I've no idea. Maybe it will stay 'as is', maybe one of you will come up with an innovative idea, and I'll wonder why I didn't think of it. There's no rush, so let's take it as it comes.

As to the newsletter, it costs nothing. It arrives every two weeks - unless I've put my back out. If it turns out not to be for you, unsubscribing takes one click and no hard feelings. Your email address won't be passed to people who want to sell you a retirement home and you won't be spammed (at least not by me).