The Male Pivot - COVID
Karen Bontrager
Founder Crisis to Courage for Men I Podcast | 16-24 | ★ Money & Thought Leader | TBRI Trauma Clinician | LMHCA Therapist | ACC Trauma Coach | No Fear in Love Race President | Coaching | Scholar | Fierce Men’s Advocate
It is plain to see
The male pivot is needed
For you, COVID remain an unsolved mystery.
Which direction will you go;
being so uncertain, no one knows?
Governments, researchers, and scientists say they do.
Yet turning on a dime, folks are not sure who you'll next pursue.
You've wiped away incomes, businesses, and unstable jobs.
Leaving people depressed, diseased, with deadly sobs.
In all that is unsteady in your wake,
The male pivot is critical to provide, protect, and navigate
Before its too late.
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Thank you for reading.
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Author’s Bio
Karen Bontrager helps 16-24-year-old men, and fellas, 25+ stuck there due to complex trauma, make permanent shifts in their behavior from merely surviving in life to thriving through transparent coaching/counseling in one-on-one conversations and in group work, and through topic sensitive trauma-informed workshops in a program called, “From Crisis to Courage.” With this ontological approach, I partner with my clients to discover their essence, (aka highest and best self) by powerfully reflecting and listening to them. My clients quickly learn how to generate self-awareness and to voice their own relationship needs in a clear, constructive way by learning key coaching techniques/evidenced based counseling approaches/tools to work past their traumatic events and addictions to move forward. The clients are then equipped to develop healthy relationships with key relationships: parents/siblings/friends, and with intimate dating partners because they have learned how to proactively use their voice.
She does a weekly Relationships Matter Monday LI article/poem/commentary for 16-24-year-old men and fellas, 25+, stuck there due to trauma, is a frequent contributor here, and has a bi-monthly podcast called Crisis to Courage to give gentlemen an honorable platform for learning how to use their voices in a way which gets respected, instead of turning to the old standbys: anger, isolation, and numbing behavior, so they can be the men they were made, formed, and created to be.
Crisis to Courage Podcast for Men Links below:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1130105/listings
https://open.spotify.com/show/0hBtQMFu6eOoHAJBZVRgiQ
https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xMTMwMTA1LnJzcw==
https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/3017583
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/crisis-to-courage-podcast-a-pl-1258925
https://www.deezer.com/us/show/1372142
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/crisis-to-courage-podcast-a-platform-for-udrRN3OmV9o/
Are you a man, 16-24, or more mature, 25+ which feels stuck mentally, and is not able to move forward due to a traumatic past, which shows up as anger, isolation, or various numbing behaviors, and needs support? Or, do you feel something gets in the way emotionally from you loving self, others, or having the life of your dreams, but are not sure what? Please DM me on Linked In for an opportunity to talk.
Operations Leadership | Internet Marketing | Ontological Coach
4 年Really strong here Karen Bontrager ?? Wishing you a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday!!
For our esteemed clients in IT sector, we are currently hiring extra ordinary talent: Java Spring Boot Microservices Developer, Pega CDH Decisioning Architect, Adobe Campaign Manager for Bangaluru /Chennai locations
4 年Dear Sissy Coral, beautifully worded the pandemic situation, however we all need to be positive and wait for the concerted efforts to continue to contain the virus till the vaccine is available to entire humanity. Cheers to humanity!
Founder Crisis to Courage for Men I Podcast | 16-24 | ★ Money & Thought Leader | TBRI Trauma Clinician | LMHCA Therapist | ACC Trauma Coach | No Fear in Love Race President | Coaching | Scholar | Fierce Men’s Advocate
4 年Kokila Lane, I deeply appreciate ALL your kindness and support regarding #crisistocourage4men. As a woman, you really understand the importance of it. Thank you, very much. - Our fellas do "dirty work," as well as make other significant contributions to society, but do not get any recognition, or even worse, are demeaned/lumped together with all bad men, which is causing a virtually ignored pandemic. - Therefore, it is a blessing to be having different conversations here, which hopefully gives hurting traumatized fellas hope. #crisistocourage
Sabbatical - working on my next painting at Life
4 年We should not be identified by what we have or had, what was and what is now, but only to persevere in honor of this gift we call life.
Founder Crisis to Courage for Men I Podcast | 16-24 | ★ Money & Thought Leader | TBRI Trauma Clinician | LMHCA Therapist | ACC Trauma Coach | No Fear in Love Race President | Coaching | Scholar | Fierce Men’s Advocate
4 年In all that is unsteady in your wake,? The male pivot is critical to provide, protect, and navigate Before its too late.