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Today, guest Mike Hutchinson (Hutch) passionately explores the topic of masculinity and emotions, such as rage, as a follow up to telling his adoption story in the previous episode 70, where we explored how certain familial relationships have impacted his identity and life path.  

After listening, let us know what your experience of masculinity right here in the comments.

Highlights

• Being sensitive and crying easily as a child

• Being raised in southern masculinity

• Emotional maturity can look different in different people

• The differences in men and women’s tear ducts

• The role of abandonment

• Fighting in middle school

• Accessing rage quickly in a self protection situation

• The safety of intellectualism 

• Ability to identify emotions

• Healthy masculinity and normal male behavior versus toxic masculinity

• The church’s role in shaping masculinity

• Being in a masculinity crisis in society

• How to create healthy masculinity 

• Men’s rights

The precursor to this bonus that provides more context through Hutch’s personal story 

EPISODE 070: The Ripple of Being Given Up - A Path Through Closed Adoption

Other Human Amplified Episodes featuring Hutch 

• EPISODE 051: Exploring Faith Part 1 - A Scholarly Foundation for Defining Faith

• EPISODE 052: Exploring Faith Part 2 - Let’s Be Fair, Suffering Is Normal
  

Links

• The True Presbyterian podcast (Updated April 2024: This podcast is no longer in production or in working order so the link has been removed).

• Tear duct differences in men and women sources:

  • Why We Cry (American Psychological Association)

  • Nobel Scientist’s Claim Examined: Do Women Actually Cry More? (LiveScience)

• Fight, Flight, or Freeze

• Info on the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan

• Bring Back Our Girls

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