Shattering the Silence

(By Cecil Murphey) Although he said the words in 2008, I can still see his sad face. "I've been afraid to hug another man. I was af...

(By Cecil Murphey) "I felt as if God himself had molested me." Objectively and intellectually, he knew the reality, but he said th...

(By Cecil Murphey) Culture and training gives us a skewed picture of what it's like to be a man—a real man. Many of us pull back, conv...

(By Cecil Murphey) I remember the first time I heard the term embrace the pain . How could that ever be good? It hurts. It makes us feel wea...

(By Cecil Murphey) Some of us struggle more with memories of the past than others do. They come back as quick, spurts of something in the pa...

Too often we're so engrossed in our own recovery, we can't focus on the pain of others. By opening up about our pain, however, we al...

"We don't talk about unpleasant things in this family." While he was growing up, my friend Rodney told me that was what he hea...