We have explored the personal hell that you can experience when the messages and signals to listen to your Disquiet go unheeded. The self doubts, feeling lost and questioning of purpose that toss you around in the middle of the night. And the messes in your life that can be created by taking unwise actions trying to dull or eradicate the pain with quick fixes or band-aids. Jumping into actions like rashly quitting a job, having an affair, leaving a marriage, extreme risk-taking and generally acting like an ass who is pretending to be 28 again.

But what about the pain and suffering to those you love? How does our lack of engaging our Disquiet impact our effectiveness as a dad?

Here is a rare chance to see that impact.

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I have been receiving a lot of wonderful feedback, emails and comments from women on this blog and at the website. They have a lot to say, ranging from discussing their own Disquiet and it’s similarities and differences to men’s, to how they really see the Disquiet in the men in their lives and want help on how to support them.

This huge and favorable response led me to designing the family support series as part of my coaching programs. This is unique support system to help my client support his family while he is undergoing significant favorable changes in the coaching. You can read more about it here.

I also am going to start posting articles specifically for the women and families supporting the men in their lives who are struggling with their Disquiet.

Please let me know topics you would like me to cover by leaving comments below or sending me an email. Thanks!

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Announcing the Family Support Seriesâ„¢!

This is a new feature that is included in my two premier coaching programs: Engaging the Disquiet Coaching Program and the Empty Success Programâ„¢. As part of their coaching, my clients learn how to support their families while they go through some pretty significant changes.

In other articles, I have talked about the stress on a family when someone undergoes any significant personal change. Most folks don’t think that self improvement work like that found in coaching programs, deep spiritual work, therapy and other endeavors could have a negative impact. It can.

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I have been writing a bit about the male mid-life crisis (MLC) and how it’s seen as a joke in the media and in our culture. Underneath the joke is a pretty significant life event. In an article I wrote at LifeTwo.com, I said:

Jokes aside, the MLC is a hugely spiritual happening. Maybe the word “crisis” is the problem. It evokes the feeling of an emergency that was unplanned. Like a hurricane that comes out of no where and destroys the town.

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Here is an interesting article I read on Nicolette Beard’s man-o-pause Blog (BTW, she has a great blog, check it out). In her article, she describes a new book that may be helpful:

My friend, Eliot Katz, author of Being a Strong Man a Woman Wants, wrote me to say that he’s now marketing his book to…Women! After several months in print, he realized that his main buyers are women, who give it to men with the comment, “This is what I’ve been trying to tell you all this time.”

So what exactly are women trying to tell men?

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