The conditions of life won’t always change, but it doesn’t mean you can’t live the next moment well.Some people go through a crisis and they fold. Others get stronger. Why? Simply put—radical acceptance of what is. So what is it? How do you do it practically speaking?

If you’re not engaged in healing the wound in the masculine/feminine archetypes within, you’re not accessing your whole self. And it’s costing you.

In order to locate your inner child—the hidden voice of love—you have to claw through a lot of adult bullshit. Sometimes the shadows we cast are so large we can’t see ourselves clearly.The Shadow is, in reality, a loyal guide trying to lead us into relationship with these excluded parts of ourself. It’s attempting to let us know that there is more going on than meets the eye.

She’s hungry For his attention or the bills to be paid or for the kids to be fed or for the situation to be dealt with or for his affection once more or for a chance to get away for a few minutes alone. The Feminine will always feel totally stressed next to the unresponsive Masculine

The Feminine has been told she is too much. And honestly She probably is. Because the inverse of this statement is that the Masculine has not been enough. Men, we must discover the Sacred Masculine in ourselves.
We must embody that strength, if we are ever to hold a lover in the way we desire.

The masculine impulse to observe can lead to the problematic behavior of objectification. While this is crippling in many ways—most of all it shuts down intimacy. Worshipping her seems like a good idea—but She really doesn’t want it—it doesn’t work out for anybody.

While you hear about The Divine Feminine and the rise of the goddess, what about a parallel in Men’s Work? Why is it that in women’s circles its quite accepted to honor the goddess, but in corresponding male rituals, its rare to speak of masculine gods? In this piece Rainier explores the socio and political arguments behind this thinking, and calls for a return of the gods of men.

Have you ever wanted a guide to communication? Have you wondered what skills you need to be in relationship and say exactly what you mean? In this article Rainier breaks down how to have clear and concise communication at a variety of levels.

What are feelings? What do emotions do for us? Are we doomed to just react to them and follow our gut reactions? This is an important article to challenge the dominant cultural impulse to follow our every whim. It lays out emotional models and theory.

Traditionally men needed to be initiated into a Tribe. They needed a proving ground to demonstrate that they were safe, and could be trusted. Are there modern initiation rituals? Are there elements of traditional cultural initiation that we can apply today? Rainier covers the importance of initiation and introduces an important concept: Shadow Initiation.

Most of us hit times in our life where we feel limited or stuck. We feel scripted and out of alignment. One of the reasons this happens is because we have so much energy going to our unacknowledged shadow. What is the Shadow? How do we know what it is? How can we interact with it?

What are the archetypes of the masculine and feminine? What do human emotions have to do with these categories? How do we begin to heal these parts of ourself? These are things that Rainier covers in this article