sethbarnes

fathering , Fathering & Men's issues

Fathers and the Wound We Don't Talk About

The sepsis had taken most of his strength by then, so I helped him get dressed. I had never done that for my father before. My hands were doing someth...

Dreaming

Career vs. Dream: What Are You Really Building?

George got an executive position with a financial firm. Good salary, good title, the kind of job his parents bragged about at church. A couple of year...

The Gen Z Reframe

Gen Z Is Risk Averse: Here's How to Respond

Gen Z Is Risk Averse: Here's How to Respond For forty years my job has come down to one small moment, repeated thousands of times. A young person...

Fathering & Men's issues

It Was Time to Cross Over

Gila Wilderness River It Was Time to Cross Over When my dad turned 61, he knew he needed a change. He had been a highly successful doctor in Long Beac...

Courage , Better Living

What We Learned From Barry Conner

Barry Conner was the most gifted person I've known. I had to wait 32 years to be able to say that. Now that he's passed, I'm able to share some things...

a great story

Barry Conner: A Life Spent Building a Better World

I will never forget flying to the Amazon jungle with Barry Conner in 1997. We had flown past the Andes as the sun came up. The week before, Barry...

Dealing with junk in our lives , a great story

It’s Never Too Late To Make a Change

Yesterday I was working out at the gymn. As we were lifting weights, my friend Doug Hanson shared the following story he experienced last week. D...

Parenting

How to Raise Resilient Kids

As parents, of course we love our kids. We build our lives around protecting them. We pack the snacks, fill the water bottles, fight the battles with ...

My Life

My First Mother’s Day Without Mom

This is the first Mother’s Day I can’t call her.My mom, Jean Barnes, died last June. She was 91. Dementia slowly took pieces of her, but it never ...

The Gen Z Reframe

We Took Away the Phones. But We Forgot to Give Them Back Their Childhood.

Something remarkable has happened in the last couple of years. Parents started pushing back. Schools banned phones. Legislators started passing real l...