Men Often Keep Returning to Places That No Longer Make Sense to Other People, my new post at The Listening Room HQ my men’s practice and The Polymat sister site – speaks of workshops, garages, allotments, and other familiar places that continue giving men rhythm, continuity, competence, and human anchoring long after practical or financial logic begins to fade. It can be read on The Listening Room HQ site.
I close my four-part series on male midlife thresholds and midlife crisis with a practical, diagram-style guide
in The Listening Room HQ : Mapping Midlife: A Practical Diagram of the Male Midlife Crisis.
This final note gathers the series’ language and tools into an easy-to-scan map of stages and fork points — intended as a practical aid for noticing where you are, what choices appear, and how to move through midlife with clearer intention and integrity.
Earlier Mondo Bizarre Magazine notes in this series:
The full series as published on The Listening Room HQ:
For the complete set and ongoing notes from the practice, visit The Listening Room HQ.
I continue my four-part series on male midlife thresholds and male midlife crisis on The Listening Room HQ with the third piece: The Midlife Crisis Decision Map.
This magazine note links the conversation between the magazine and The Listening Room HQ — my men’s practice – carrying the series’ practical focus on stages, fork points, and the choices that either trap men in repetition or open a path toward integrity and real inner work.
Previously on Mondo Bizarre Magazine:
On The Listening Room HQ the series reads as:
For those who want to follow the full sequence, visit The Listening Room HQ or read the pieces above. Each post builds toward practical language and tools for noticing stages, choosing differently, and moving through midlife with presence, clarity, and accountability.
In The Listening Room HQ, my men’s practice, I continue the deep dive into the male midlife journey with the second post in a four-part series: The Universal Midlife Crisis Script | The Midlife Crisis Loop.
This piece maps the repeating beats of midlife unraveling across psychology, mythology, addiction recovery, organizational burnout, and even astrology — showing how the same loop resurfaces in different guises.
It follows directly from our earlier feature on Mondo Bizarre Magazine: From The Listening Room HQ – Living the Archetype of Unsupported Male Midlife, where the groundwork for this series was laid.
The full four-part series on The Listening Room HQ:
Each post builds on the last, offering practical language and tools for noticing stages, making clearer choices, and moving through midlife with integrity and care.
In a culture that often sidelines the midlife journey of men, this first post in a four-part series on The Listening Room HQ speaks to the archetype of the unsupported male midlife — the absence of elders, the lack of guidance, and the quiet crises that unfold when these are missing.
Read the full piece here: Living the Archetype of Unsupported Male Midlife.
This note opens a series that continues with:
For the complete series as published, visit The Listening Room HQ.
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