Nurturing and Empowering Our Sons

Are you worried about your son? Your grandson? Your young male clients? Our boys and young men have been crying out to us for help, but their cries are in the form of nature's alarms signaling their distress: Behavioral, learning, and emotional problems; behavioral and chemical addictions; failure-to-launch; gender dysphoria; apathy; violence and criminal behavior; and suicide. This book will bring you on a bewildering, breathtaking journey through the traumatic primal wounds suffered by our Millennial and Generation Z sons and the socio-political, digital, neuro-chemical, and endocrine dangers hijacking their holistic wellbeing. This journey takes mothers and fathers by the hand through step-by-step principles, actions, advocacy, and treatments that will actually help their sons heal. Nurturing and Empowering Our Sons provides the puzzle pieces, insights, and solutions missing from other books about boys. It shifts the focus from the problem being within the boy to our society being out of alignment with nature's intent for the boy's optimal development. It boldly tackles tough topics like male body shaming, male victims of sexual assault, circumcision, psychiatric drugging, sexism against males, the male suicide epidemic, and many more. This book covers historical, anthropological, scientific, socio-political, and current topics pertaining to our sons. It is written in a sensitive, conversational format, interwoven with graphics, lists, and resources. It also features insights and final interviews from Laurie's adoptive son, Brycen, an extreme child trauma victim who succumbed to suicide at age 23. Nurturing and Empowering Our Sons is a deep-dive into Laurie A. Couture's "nature's intent" philosophy. It offers hope and is packed with guidance on neuro-somatic trauma healing, attachment repair, unschooling, alternative education, holistic health practices, adjunct therapies, direct advocacy, opportunities for family fun and community involvement, and so much more! It covers boys ages pre-birth to mid-20s with mild, moderate, severe, and extreme behavioral healthcare needs and includes a special chapter for guiding the behavior of special needs sons without using behavioral modification techniques. NAEOS Endorsements Nurturing and Empowering Our Sons is a magnum opus on male health spanning 34 comprehensive and insightful chapters... and not holding back by tackling controversial and often underappreciated topics in boys and young men's lives such as male sexual abuse, male genital mutilation, and misandry. -James E. Leone, PhD, Author, Concepts in Male Health By offering real solutions to the problems facing our sons, Couture is fearless in her commitment to the single biggest problem facing our nation, a crisis that has led to a nation of boys and young men who are feeling lost and displaced in society and looking for a place in it. Nurturing and Empowering Our Sons is a hard-hitting look at the ways boys have been marginalized by school, media, and politics for decades. -Sean Kullman, President, Global Initiative for Boys and Men; Editor of In His Words In this book, Laurie A. Couture explores how boys grow up and are treated in our culture, a much-neglected area. This is a profound book... In the end, no matter who you are, your assumptions are likely to be challenged and you will gain important insights. -Jerry Mintz, Director, Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO)