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Calling All Men: Get Healthy in Body, Mind
and Spirit in 2024
I am pleased to report that I celebrated my 80th
birthday on December 21, 2023. It’s been said
that the two most important days of your life are
(1) The day you were born and (2) The day you found
out why. You know the day and month of my birth and
can easily figure out the year. The day I found out
why I was born was on November 21, 1969, the day my
first son, Jemal, was born. When I held him in my
arms shortly after he came into the world, I made a
promise that I would be a different kind of father
than my father was able to be for me and to do
everything I could to help create a world where
fathers were fully healthy and involved with their
children throughout their lives.
When our daughter, Angela, was born on March 22,
1972, I started MenAlive.com. I realized that if I
was going to fulfill my promise to my children, I
had to learn to be healthy in body, mind, and
spirit myself. We know that is not an easy task.
One of the things that has become increasingly
clear to me as I’ve lived these eighty years
is that our world has become increasingly
unhealthy. What we call our global climate crisis
is really a symptom of a world out of balance, or
more accurately, a world where human beings are out
of balance with the community of life on planet
Earth.
“We never knew enough. Nor were we
sufficiently intimate with all our cousins in
the great family of the earth. Nor could we
listen to the various creatures of the earth,
each telling its own story. The time has now
come, however, when we will listen or we will
die.”
Which brings me to the point of this article.
Although women certainly share some of the
responsibility for the state of our world, my own
calling has been to help heal men, starting with
myself. Those who have followed my work know that
the primary way I share what I’ve learned
about health and wellbeing is through my writing.
My 17 books include such health-promoting titles
as:
- Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places:
Overcoming Romantic and Sexual Addictions.
- Surviving Male Menopause.
- The Whole Man Program: Reinvigorating Your
Body, Mind, and Spirit After 40.
- The Irritable Male Syndrome: Understanding
and Managing the 4 Key Causes of Depression and
Aggression.
- The Enlightened Marriage: The 5
Transformative Stages of Relationships and Why
the Best is Still to Come.
- And my most recent book, Long Live Men! The
Moonshot Mission to Heal Men, Close the Lifespan
Gap, and Offer Hope to Humanity.
Beginning in 2024, I will be offering a
number of courses for those who would like to take
advantage of what I’ve learned over these 80
years. The courses will be open to men and
women who want to better understand and put into
practice what I’ve learned about men’s
mental, emotional, and relational health and also
for people who are working professionally to
improve the lives of men and their families.
I have developed the following five courses:
Course #1: Men Alive: The Hidden Truth About
The Hazards of Being Male and A New Hope For
Humanity.
A 7 Week Foundational Course on the New Science
of Trauma-Informed Gender-Specific Health Care.
- Module 1: The Facts of Life, Death,
and Disability for Males vs. Females.
- Module 2: The Realities of Male
Biology That Are at the Foundation for
Men’s Inherent Vulnerability.
- Module 3: The Evolution of Desire:
Why Men Risk Their Lives to Compete With Other
Men.
- Module 4: Humans Are Not Limited by
Our Biological and Evolutionary Origins and Can
Make Healthy Choices for Life.
- Module 5: The Warrior’s Journey
Home: Healing Men, Healing the Planet.
- Module 6: Men’s True Strength is
Accepting Our Vulnerability and Healing Our
Traumatic Wounds.
- Module 7: The Moonshot Mission to
Heal Men, Close the Lifespan Gap, and Offer Hope
to Humanity.
Course #2: Men Alive: Healing Ourselves,
Helping Other Men.
A 7 Week Course on the Unique Healing Journey
All Men Must Take.
- Module 1: Accept Your Soul’s
Calling and Become a Healthy Deviant.
- Module 2: The Secrets of Success in
Your Three Non-Negotiable Marriages.
- Module 3: Join a Men’s Group and
Hear the Sound That Male Cells Sing.
- Module 4: Break Free From the Man-Box
Beliefs and Behaviors.
- Module 5: Recognize Your Anger, Fear,
and Dependency on Women.
- Module 6: Understand and Manage The
Irritable Male Syndrome and Male-Type
Depression.
- Module 7: Heal Your Family Father
Wound and Other Adverse Childhood
Experiences.
Course #3: Men Alive: Making a Great Living
Helping Men And Their Families.
A 7 Week Course for Those Working in the Field
of Men’s Health.
- Module 1: Your Gift of Healing in the
Present is Birthed in the Wounds of the
Past.
- Module 2: Finding Your Place in the
Helping Professions.
- Module 3: Making Men’s Health
Your Professional Focus.
- Module 4: Finding Your Unique
Offering and Writing Your First Book.
- Module 5: The Million-Dollar
One-Person Business Is Not For Everyone, But it
Might Be For You.
- Module 6: How to Become the “Go
To” Expert in Your Field.
- Module 7: Nitty-Gritty Advice From 74
Years Helping Men and the Families Who Love
Them.
Course #4: Men Alive: Understanding,
Preventing, and Healing Male Violence Towards Self
and Others.
A 7 Week Course for Addressing All Forms of
Violence.
- Module 1: Violence, A Universal
Challenge.
- Module 2: Why Violence Prevention is
a Critical Men’s Health Issue.
- Module 3: Male Suicide: The Ultimate
Expression of Men’s Depression and
Despair.
- Module 4: Man Therapy: A
Research-Backed Tool That Reduces Suicidal
Thinking.
- Module 5: How Not To Kill
Yourself.
- Module 6: Putting Peace into
Practice: How to Live With Compassion and Love
Every Day.
- Module 7: Men’s Groups May Be
the Hope for Peace in the World.
Course #5: Men Alive: Creating Centers of
Connection, Compassion, and Sanity in a World Out
of Balance
A 7 Week Course for Living, Loving, and Making a
Positive Difference in Today’s World.
- Module 1: Understanding the Times We
Are Living In.
- Module 2: The Sinking of the Ship of
Civilization and The Vision Given to Me in the
Sweat Lodge.
- Module 3: Sensitive Men Rising and
The Moonshot For Mankind.
- Module 4: The Call of the Modern-Day
Spiritual Warrior.
- Module 5: The Warrior’s Journey
Home: Healing Men, Healing Our Relationships,
Healing the Planet.
- Module 6: Healing Practices of
Peaceful Spiritual Warriors.
- Module 7: Creating Centers of
Connection, Compassion, and Sanity in a World
Out of Balance.
As I’ve been developing these five Courses,
I’m really excited about what they can do to
help your understand the issues related to
men’s health and, more importantly, what you
can do to put this information into practice to
improve your health and the health of those you
love.
I have also partnered with Ubiquity University
to offer credits towards Master’s and PhD
level degrees for people who would like to earn an
advanced degree in addition to what you will learn
through the courses and your own practice and
engagement.
If you would like to learn more about the these
Course offerings, drop me a note to Jed@MenAlive.com
and put “Men’s Health Courses” in
the subject line. I will send you more details.
©2024 Jed Diamond
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Wealth can't buy health, but health can buy
wealth. - Henry David Thoreau
Jed Diamond
is the internationally best-selling author of seven
books including Male
Menopause, now
translated into 17 foreign languages and his
latest book, The
Irritable Male Syndrome: Managing. The 4 Key Causes
of Depression and
Aggression. For over
38 years he has been a leader in the field of men's
health. He is a member of the International
Scientific Board of the World Congress on
Men’s Health and has been on the Board of
Advisors of the Men’s Health Network since its
founding in 1992. His work has been featured in
major newspapers throughout the United States
including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Wall
Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and USA
Today. He has been featured on more than 1,000
radio and T.V. programs including The View with
Barbara Walters, Good Morning America, Inside
Edition, CBS, NBC, and Fox News, To Tell the Truth,
Extra, Leeza, Geraldo, and Joan Rivers. He also did
a nationally televised special on Male Menopause
for PBS. He looks forward to your feedback.
E-Mail.
You can visit his website at www.menalive.com
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