“What typifies many men is that they are basically taught to be a rock— hard like a rock, unbreakable like a rock, inexpressive… like a rock… We thought we knew what intimacy was, but since we have had to take up the “rock energy”, the voids, and unowned traumas (all at the expense of our lifelong femininity), we’ve been coached out of a natural, spiritual nature we once knew.”

—Excerpt from the personal narrative, “The Geology of Men”, Serenity Everyday