Are you curious about your transition to manhood or struggling in life and looking for guidance on how to get back on track as a healthy man?How would you be different if you didn’t feel you had to follow societal expectations for men?What is your relationship to Power, Aggression, Wealth, Fame, and Sex Appeal?What would it be like to accept yourself as being “good enough?”Answer these questions and more as we explore societal expectations for men with regards to Dominance, Sex, Relationships, Careers, Fatherhood, Growing Old and Men’s Mental Health. This book guides you to free yourself from the Mother to become an authentic, healthy man.

Many of us don't receive healthy guidance growing up about making the transition to manhood, adapting to societal expectations and living life as an authentic man. This book will provide you with opportunities for learning, so that you might not be as confused, so that you can be better prepared to cope with some of the real challenges and pain in life.

So that you too can free yourself and become a healthy man. This book is going to give you the opportunity to look deeper, not just at society’s expectations for you, but at your Soul’s desires.

Your Soul deserves that, not more socialization into society’s fantasy of the heroic ideal male. Whether you are 15, or 50 and recreating your life anew, I want to start a dialogue with you.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and mental health therapist and want to share my collective experiences, observations, learning and wisdom which have helped me, my clients, and my friends over the years to feel happier and better about being men. Some people may say it is inappropriate to talk to young men about some of the things this book is going to talk about.

It is likely some people might even try and ban this book. Either way, honestly, it is time to take the risk.

We boys and men are suffering in many ways. I believe in sharing this wisdom with you, and my own son, because I want you to be able to cut through all the bullshit that society and social media teach us about being men.

Since you may not have healthy men in your life with which you feel safe to discuss your struggles and hopes, my hope is that this book can be our space to think about them. To that aim, this book will encourage you to look deeper, at your own strengths and weaknesses, your confidences and insecurities.

Hopefully, this will help you to reflect on the man you would like to become. Whether you choose to read it or not, I wish you all the best the world has to offer along your manhood journey, and that you may become the best version of your authentic self!Adam Metcalf, LCSW*WARNING*: While I sincerely believe the information contained in this book, including explicit talk about sex, should be shared with boys as soon as they start thinking about having sex, it may be inappropriate for some parents.

To those parents, I encourage you to reflect on how you may be harming your sons by withholding this wisdom. .