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Rebuilding when your identity was your job

When work ends and you do not know who you are.

For many people, especially men, work is identity. Redundancy, retirement, injury or burnout can leave a hole.

What can help

Separate what you did from who you are: your values, skills and relationships
Keep a routine
Find purpose elsewhere: volunteering, learning, family, community
Talk to others who have been through it

Grief is normal

You may grieve your old role. That is real loss.

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Keep exploring.

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CampaignBreak the stigma

Men don't have to disappear.

Withdrawal, overwork, anger and numbness are how pain often shows up in men. Disappearing is not the same as coping.

Men
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I don't know if what happened counts.

You do not need a name for it. Answer a few questions, and nothing is stored.

Trauma
CourseBeing written

Anger, and what is under it

Why it comes out as rage and shortness rather than sadness. How to tell ordinary irritability from something that needs a doctor, and what to say when you call.

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Burnout

When you are running on empty and cannot recover.

1 minute readMental health
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Strength can also look like asking for help.

Men
ProgramForming now

The Anchor Program

Short term stabilization and planning for what comes next.

FreeOnline, one to oneTrauma
PodcastComing soon

The Lighthouse Is On

A Griefyard Works podcast. Long conversations about the things men were taught not to say. Coming soon.

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Starting over after addiction

Recovery and building a new life.

1 minute readStarting over
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The first ninety days

What has to be handled after a death, a separation, or a release, in the order it has to be handled.

Thirty minutes to read, then a few minutes a dayStarting over

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