Masculine Alchemy with Robert Kress fRX- Functional and Lifestyle Medicine Specialist

Welcome back...

As I continue to grow this podcast, these first few episodes will be focusing strongly on some of my most profound lessons I have encountered on my path.

Comfort is a double edged sword- we need comfort for healing and getting into the creative phase (divine feminine energies)- and we often need discomfort for growth (hopefully in a divine masculine sort of way)

Psychosomatic medicine is very much recognized in our practice, and one of my greatest teachers has been Dr. John Sarno.

Tune in while I share the basics of psychosomatic medicine...and how it can play a role in our own Peak Performance and Optimal Wellness.

And then stay tuned...as the episode to follow will delve into the beauty of the discomfort, and building resilience for growth.

Welcome to Episode One...

So…you might have noticed, there is a movement going on, one that is in speaks of the mature, or conscious masculine, something that has been wholly absent in our culture for generations in many cases- as modernity has let go of the importance of rites of passage and empowered elders to lead young men into manhood.

Additionally, through our cultural community, there has been many blows casts at the masculine, without differentiating between the mature and the immature, the divine and the shadow, the conscious and the unconscious- leaving many to tag all men as being under some sort of patriarchal cult and control.

The Patriarchy, is the immature, the unconscious and shadow masculine- the very force that has been attacking both woman and the conscious masculine, separating the father figures out of family, out of society, attacking the environment, hijacking medicine through a myopic indoctrination of learning, not to mention the overreaching control of Pharma. And beyond medicine, the patriarchal energy taken over and profited through their overt control our food systems leading to endless cycles of disease, as well as the industrialized military complex and endless wars and more.

Who am I and why the hell am I talking about this?

I am a man who after 52 years traversing this third rock from the sun…recognized I have been on my own hero’s journey, although without the elixir- so many times just short of the elixir- who realized that there is a crisis that happens at midlife, although to call it midlife crisis is not giving it the credit which it deserves, which we deserve, which society deserves.

Midlife crisis is buying the sports car and the convertible, which I did, its much more than that, It is in fact, chirons return.

Have you heard of it?

Chiron, astrologically speaking is the wounded healer, and where we will be delving more into this in future podcasts- to summarize it- we all have wounds…and if we are aware enough, through the work of healing our wounds, we alchemize our wounds into our gift, whatever that gift might be, and we share it with the world. In the words of Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey, it is the Elixir we now have to share.

Why masculine Alchemy and Mens health?

There is a distinct need for the conscious masculine (and feminine) to come to the forefront of our society- and- a masculine leadership to guide others

What's unique about my approach and flavor?

Two things- I am going to be 53 this year, I have lived through , and most importantly learned through chirons return to be on the path of healing my wounds, and being the man and the human I have always wanted to be, and in many ways was unknowingly pretending- I had myself fooled

Secondly, I am a functional medicine specialist- where we need to do the inner work- we need to strengthen our physical vessel, of body, mind and spirit- like the byline says, Open Hearts * Fit Minds * Resilient Bodies *- and my training and my current professional role as a functional medicine practitioner an teacher deserves a unique and needed role in this space.