We live in challenging times when men need to be skillful in addressing the emotional issues which arise in their own lives and in their relationships with the people they love and the people with whom they work. This book combines insights from Western and Eastern psychology to help men sharpen their emotional skills. Emotional wellness is not only about change - it is also about acceptance. This book draws on Western insights, which promote change, and on Eastern insights, which emphasize the value of acceptance and effort. The author's column That's Men for You appears weekly in The Irish...

Mindfulness involves deliberate awareness of the flow of our present moment experiences. This book offers exercises that will help you practise mindfulness immediately and explains how mindfulness can deepen many areas of your life, including your relationships.

That's Men for You is a collection of articles taken from the author's column of the same name, which has been appearing weekly in the Irish Times health supplement Health-plus for the last number of years. Men have welcomed the column but so have women, especially when it deals with relationships. The articles included here mirror the diversity and sometimes contrariness of life. Issues such as the importance of fathers, living with post-natal depression, the joys of sleeping in separate bedrooms, whether men are more likely than women to be sent to the doghouse, accepting conflict in...