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The release of Randy and Zach Flood’s professional training, A New Clinical Paradigm for Men’s Mental Health, by PESI UK*, is a significant milestone for everyone at the Men’s Resource Center. PESI UK is one of the world's leading providers of continuing education for mental health professionals. “To think that work we developed over many [...]
In recognition of Pride month, the Revealing Men podcast revisited this segment featuring writer and publisher Tommy Allen. Although the official celebration ends with the month, the celebration of men and masculinity continues. "When I grew up, there were two things that a man should not be: a gay male or a woman. Stop acting [...]
Ken Porter is a frequent guest on the Revealing Men podcast, hosted by Randy Flood, psychotherapist and director of the Men’s Resource Center. He often helps clients navigate traumatic experiences, past and present, through his work as a somatic therapist and Hakomi-trained clinician. In this conversation, he and Flood focus on the interface between mind, [...]
When Randy Flood, psychotherapist and Director of the Men’s Resource Center, received “The Gales of November” by John U. Bacon as a gift, he says he “absolutely devoured” it. Bacon’s book resonated with Flood not only because of his family’s history with Lake Superior or because he could immediately hear Gordon Lightfoot’s haunting song honoring [...]
In the first segment of a two-part Revealing Men series on how men will adjust to the advance of artificial general intelligence (AGI)*, Randy Flood, director and co-founder of the Men’s Resource Center, ponders what happens when “technology starts outperforming men physically, mentally, and cognitively.” In this second segment, Flood asks, “What happens when technology [...]
In the first segment of a two-part Revealing Men series on how men will adjust to the advance of artificial general intelligence (AGI)*, Randy Flood, director and co-founder of the Men’s Resource Center, describes what happens when “technology starts outperforming men physically, mentally, and cognitively.” In a world where masculinity has been “equated with utility,” [...]
In this holiday segment for the Revealing Men podcast, host Randy Flood and his colleague and son, Zach, take listeners through a laugh-inducing, scene-by-scene psychological analysis of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. It’s a humorous and insightful conversation about what Randy calls a “masterclass parody in holiday psychology.” This over-the-top,1980s-era movie unwittingly offers a real perspective [...]
It might seem unusual for a counseling and therapy center to publicly celebrate the anniversary of its founding. But the Men’s Resource Center of West Michigan (MRC) is, itself, unusual. Co-founder and Director, Randy Flood, M.A., L.L.P., describes the decision he and Charlie Donaldson, M.A., L.L.P. made in 2000 as: “an audacious, some would say, [...]
Recent events remind us that political violence rarely ends with one act—it sparks more violence. Politicians then exploit that violence to score ideological points or to win votes. But too often, the spotlight skips over the men who actually commit these acts. On this episode of Revealing Men, host Randy Flood takes on a question [...]
As host of the Revealing Men podcast, psychotherapist Randy Flood interviews a variety of experts who focus on men and their inner lives; what they are least likely to show to the people around them or even acknowledge to themselves. For this segment, Flood speaks directly to his audience about what he sees as an [...]
Marcel Fable Price is a storyteller and poet. He was the youngest, the first person without a college degree, and the first person of color to hold the title of Poet Laureate in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Through deeply personal, brilliant, and colorful writing he invites his audience (readers and listeners) to reimagine what healing [...]
Randy Flood, host of the Revealing Men podcast, is an avid reader of The Sun, a non-profit, ad-free magazine that publishes personal essays, short stories, and poetry. It was there that he first encountered author, Doug Crandell, through an essay about his father’s life as a laborer: “His Body of Work.” Flood, a psychotherapist and [...]
Dr. Ronald Levant is widely considered one of the key people responsible for creating the field of psychology of Men and Masculinities. He’s a feminist scholar, Professor Emeritus of psychology at the University of Akron, the past president of the American Psychological Association and the Association's Division 51, the Society for the Psychological Study of [...]
As host of the Revealing Men podcast, Randy Flood usually engages a guest in conversation about the issues men face in working through their own and society’s expectations of what constitutes masculinity in the 21st century. This time, there is no guest. They fell ill. Instead of canceling, Flood uses the time to talk about [...]
In 2009, while a client at the Men’s Resource Center of West Michigan, Jim Musial —an avid runner— wrote a guest post about how “running could be hazardous to your emotional health.” He only hints at what it is he was running from; at the time, emotionally able to share just part of his story. [...]
The Revealing Men podcast typically features conversations that seek to pull back the curtain to reveal the inner lives of men. For this conversation, host Randy Flood, psychotherapist and Director of the Men’s Resource Center of West Michigan, and his guests, somatic therapists Ken Porter and Monica Vergara do more than pull back the curtain; [...]
In his work with the Men’s Resource Center, Zach Flood’s focus is on men and their relationships, especially where those relationships are fractured or broken. He helps families navigate the family court system and the turmoil associated with parental alienation and resist and refuse dynamics. He also provides online domestic abuse coaching and counseling for [...]
Randy Flood didn’t set out to specialize in men’s work. As he tells Ken Porter, it all started with an internship at a forensic psychological practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. "I stumbled into it," he says. More than 30 years later, Flood is the director and co-founder of the Men’s Resource Center of West Michigan. As [...]
Dr. William Keepin is a mathematical physicist, author, and co-founder of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI). His book, Gender Equity and Reconciliation: Thirty Years of Healing the Most Ancient Wound in the Human Family, co-authored with Cynthia Brix, describes the origins of GERI and the process it’s developed and uses throughout the world in [...]
Research has shown that loneliness takes years off our lives. In fact, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy points to this research when he states that loneliness in the 21st century is a public health problem comparable to cigarette smoking in the 20th century. This is particularly noted in males, who historically prize independence and rugged [...]
Randy Flood met Mike Salisbury on a train ride traversing the Alaskan Wilderness while heading to Denali National Park. Despite being what he calls “the aloof traveler strategically attempting to avoid mindless chatter with bored extroverts,” Flood was drawn into a conversation with Salisbury. “I was captivated,” he says, “by the exquisite mix [...]
Somatic therapist, Ken Porter, is a regular guest on the Revealing Men podcast, hosted by psychotherapist Randy Flood, co-founder and Director of the Men’s Resource Center of West Michigan. On previous podcasts, he and Flood have talked about innovative treatments focused on emotional well-being and their work to remediate the damaging long-term effects that emotional [...]
Randy Flood, psychologist and Director of the Men’s Resource Center of West Michigan, lets the listener know from the start that this segment of the Revealing Men podcast, which he hosts, is atypical. “We oftentimes focus on just men’s issues but we want to recognize as we talk about parental alienation that it not only [...]
Jonathan Cauchi is the Community Education Specialist for Disability Advocates and the host of its Flattening the Curb podcast. Located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the organization, founded in 1981, works alongside persons with disabilities as they seek to lead self-directed lives and advocates for accessible and welcoming communities. Cauchi recently sat down with Randy Flood, [...]
If we live long enough, we will age. Despite our protestations to the contrary, there will be things we can no longer do in the ways in which we’ve become accustomed. For many of us, that is inconceivable. Psychotherapist, Randy Flood, and clinical psychologist, Mark DeVries, Ph.D. are friends and biking enthusiasts. Flood hosts the [...]
