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Mark Grayson

Mark Grayson

Author of "Getting Naked: A Field Guide for Men," Founding Director of Trinity Spiritual Center, and Featured Columnist on masculinity for The Good Men Project.

Aug 8, 2026

Rooted & Wild

Rooted & Wild

Reclaiming Wholeness: The New Language of Masculinity | Mark Grayson

Aug 8 · 20m

Henry Hawk
Henry HawkHOST
2:03
And today, we're really talking about wholeness, what it means to be whole.
Mark Grayson
Mark GraysonGUEST
2:07
Well, I think that the culture of masculinity that we all grow up in is one that forces us into a set of behaviors and expectations that are limiting to us as human beings.
Mark Grayson
Mark GraysonGUEST
2:24
They condition us to express things.
Mark Grayson
Mark GraysonGUEST
2:28
aspects of our personality that are consistent with the dominance-based model of masculinity that we live with.
Mark Grayson
Mark GraysonGUEST
2:36
And it conditions out of us characteristics that society views as feminine, girly, other, gay, all those things.
Mark Grayson
Mark GraysonGUEST
2:51
Many of those behaviors, those personality traits that we associate as feminine or not manly are actually important tools in our toolbox.
Mark Grayson
Mark GraysonGUEST
3:09
And so we're kind of going through life with an incomplete set of tools.
Henry Hawk
Henry HawkHOST
7:19
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