Welcoming Alexander Cameron a mental health therapist that specializes in men’s mental health...

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The reason why this particular segment is so important is because our physical health has everything to do with our mental health. Meet Alex! Alex got his Masters of social work at a university of Calgary which landed him a job working with male victims of domestic abuse. He did a lot of work in counselling in advocacy while training organizations and how to work differently with men. He then taught at Mount Royal while continuing healthy masculinity work. He is now in Toronto with the private practice and doing monthly groups with men with an agency creating a branch of nontraditional conversations. Alex‘s message is mostly about being a strong male role model and challenging gender norms in toxic masculinity such as social constructionism. It is normal as humans to have excitable highs and depressing lows. But what is not considered healthy is being in these destructive lows for a long period of time. I personally can resonate with a lot of Alixis theory, philosophy and facts! He’s a well educated man with a lot to offer. What I like about him the most is that he steered his work towards men’s mental health. Sometimes going across the board isn’t always helpful from a business point of view. But when a man sees that another therapist who is a male that specializing with men’s mental health particularly, that man may be more inclined to share. Women as we know has fought for many years that we were more than what our grandfather said or our great great grandfathers said, so on and so forth and we have recognized the delusion of this pecking order that has been going on for many years. A part of what we have talked about in the podcast is that men have developed toxic behavior. In regards to that there has been a delusion around what expectations are of men. They were raised to never cry and only pussies would have feelings, suck it up all that good stuff. This is all very untrue. What we do have in common between men and women is that we all have ups and downs and the ability to develop mental health issues. We all have our own triggers and stories that have lead us to the present of pain and suffering. So it’s very important we seek help for this navigation as we are not born with these tools on how to come out with our head held high. Alex also mentioned an amazing non profit organization for our youth (our young men). I have a 13 year old son and we are considering this amazing opportunity! NEXT GEN MEN is a youth-led, nonprofit organization focussed on building better men through youth and peer engagement, education and empowerment. Website: nextgenmen.ca Please welcome the expert in all this amazing work... Alexander Cameron @thetattooedtherapist Thank you for all your loving support and listening ears ✌🏼❤️ @tiff_fit_biff @boxtalkpodcast