Men's Work: Breathwork & Brotherhood

I've been doing healing work for over thirty years - and more recently, men's work. I've been sitting across from men who are quietly falling apart, holding space in circles where grown men cry for the first time in decades, leading retreats in the mountains of New Mexico and Upstate New York where something cracks open in a man that he didn't even know was sealed shut. And after all of it, I can tell you with complete honesty: this work never ends. Not for the men I sit with. Not for me. That's not a warning. That's an invitation. Because the men who come to me aren't broken.They're not failures. They're not weak. They're men who can feel - even if they can't quite name it - that there is more to this life than what they've been living. More than the job, the role, the performance. More than the version of themselves they put on every morning like a uniform. They sense it. And they're right.This book is for those men. It doesn't matter if you're twenty-five or seventy-five. It doesn't matter if you've done a decade of therapy or never once talked about your feelings out loud. If something in you said yes when you picked this up - that's enough. That's the only qualification you need.*As a side note, some of the men reading the rough draft have asked if their wives and partners can read the book and I'm realizing this book may have benefits for a wider audience than I thought.

About the Author :
Born and raised on a farm in Kentucky, David graduated from the University of Kentucky with an MBA degree. He then ventured to Los Angeles and began acting in films, television shows and commercials throughout the 1980s. After a meeting with mystic healer Tim Heath, Elliott connected the dots of many chance meetings with strangers―people claiming they had been sent to him for "healing" by their guru in India or their psychic in New York. With the help of Tim, David learned to recognize his unique ability to feel, move and shift stuck energy; the healing work soon became his passion and the "reluctant" phase of his life dissipated. By 1997, his acting career had successfully transitioned to a full time career working as a healing artist. As David recalls, "The Universe obviously had a plan for me, so I decided to get out of the way and do the healing work." David has had a successful healing practice in Los Angeles for the past 20 years as well as an active practice in many U.S cities and Europe. He has trained healers from around the world and the demand for his teaching and healing work is growing. In recent years David has begun teaching teachers so he can have more support and get in a much needed vacation! The Creative Healing Arts Center is his vision for the future and his way of giving back to the Mother Earth and all of the beneficial energies that have been supporting him in his healing journey. Creative expression is a shortcut David has used in helping people heal and it will play a big role in this center as artists will be given opportunities to help tell the story about how we have to take care of the Mother Earth, literally as our most important family member.

Review :
"Men's work is the long, necessary project of recovering what was taken. This book is an invitation back. Back to the parts of ourselves we learned to distrust. The men who find their way to this work aren't broken - they're men who sense, even if they can't yet name it, that there is more to this life than the version of themselves they put on every morning like a uniform. They're right. And this book is proof."- Keith Garde