Acceptance: Every man, regardless of his neurological functioning, should be accepted and respected. Recognizing that neurodivergence exists means acknowledging that not all men think, process information, or interact with the world in the same way.

Accessing Deeper States: Just as Kotler’s work revolves around accessing flow and peak performance, the EVRYMAN method is about accessing deeper emotional states to enhance authenticity, connection, and overall well-being.

Accountability: Real’s emphasis on relational mindfulness aligns with EVRYMAN’s push for self-awareness and accountability in actions and emotions.

Adaptive Child and Wounded Child: In Real’s model, the adaptive child is the part of us that develops strategies and defenses to deal with early wounds, while the wounded child represents the original pain and trauma.

Adaptive Reflexes: Reflexes can change based on experience and context. For instance, the “stepping reflex” in infants disappears as they grow but later forms the basis for walking.

Addiction: The concept of addiction and its connection to trauma and societal structures like capitalism is explored, challenging conventional views of addiction as a consequence of “bad choices” or a “disease.”

Affective Sharing: This is where individuals share emotional states. It’s a precursor to more cognitive forms of empathy.

Affirm: Reinforce unfelt or unknown experiences to take the man deeper.

Antifragility: This is the central concept of the book. Unlike resilience or robustness, which denote the ability to resist or recover from shocks, something that is antifragile actually benefits from stressors, volatility, and shocks. Just as our muscles grow stronger with stress and resistance, certain systems benefit from being challenged.

Apoptosis: Also known as programmed cell death, apoptosis is a process where cells undergo a controlled death in response to certain signals. While autophagy promotes cell survival by recycling components, apoptosis eliminates cells that are damaged beyond repair.

Assertive Vulnerability: combines confidently expressing oneself while acknowledging personal limitations or emotions, promoting open communication, and fostering trust in interpersonal relationships.

Attachment and Connection: While Dr. Sue Johnson focuses on attachment in romantic relationships, the principle of the importance of secure connections with others is mirrored in the EVRYMAN method’s emphasis on building deep, authentic bonds between men in their groups.

Attachment Injuries: Events or patterns in a relationship that damage the bond of trust between partners. Faller and EFT, in general, emphasize the healing of these injuries as central to restoring trust and intimacy.

Attachment Theory: Central to EFT, this theory posits that humans are biologically predisposed to forming emotional bonds with significant others and that the quality of these bonds can influence one’s psychological well-being. Explored in the context of how early life traumas and disruptions in attachment can shape the brain and impact relationships later in life.

Authenticity: the idea of cultivating authenticity to restore interpersonal connections that have been lost in modern culture as a pathway toward health and healing.

Autophagy: A cellular “self-eating” process that disposes of and recycles damaged proteins and organelles, helping maintain cellular health. It can be triggered by various conditions like starvation or stress, and plays a vital role in numerous diseases, including cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. Efficient autophagy declines with age, influencing the aging process and overall cellular health.

Avoiding Over Intervention: Taking inspiration from the idea of iatrogenics, the EVRYMAN method could be seen as a caution against over-intervention in one’s emotional landscape. Instead of seeking immediate fixes for emotional issues, sometimes it’s more beneficial to simply observe, understand, and accept one’s emotions.

Black Swan Events: Taleb’s term for rare and unpredictable events that have massive impacts. While we can’t predict these events, we can build systems (or selves) that can withstand or even benefit from them.

Body Awareness: Hakomi holds the body as a pivotal focus for therapeutic exploration. Similarly, the EVRYMAN method recognizes the importance of bodily sensations as indicators of emotional states and encourages men to tap into and express these sensations.

Body Awareness: Just as Somatic Experiencing emphasizes the role of bodily sensations in processing trauma, the EVRYMAN method encourages men to connect with and express their bodily sensations, recognizing them as integral to emotional awareness.

Body Connection: “The Body Keeps the Score” stresses the embodiment of trauma and the need to engage the body in healing. Similarly, EVRYMAN practices encourage men to connect with their bodily sensations, recognizing the body as an integral part of emotional processing.

Body-based Therapies: Van der Kolk emphasizes the importance of integrating the body in trauma therapy, discussing approaches like yoga, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and neurofeedback.

Body-Mind Holism: Recognizing the interconnectedness of the body and mind. Emotions, beliefs, patterns, and memories can be reflected in the body, and bodily experiences can influence the mind.

Bottom-up Processing: This is an approach that emphasizes the role of the body (somatic experiences) before integrating cognitive (thinking) aspects. It’s about starting with body sensations and then integrating emotions, thoughts, and beliefs.

Bottom-Up Processing: Traumatized individuals often process information from the “bottom up,” meaning they rely more on primitive brain regions (like the brainstem) rather than the more evolved cortical areas. This can manifest as reactive, survival-driven behaviors.

Boundary Work: In RLT, boundary work involves establishing what behaviors are acceptable and what are not. It’s a crucial component in creating healthy, respectful relationships.

Brain Plasticity: The brain’s ability to change in response to experiences. While early trauma can negatively shape the brain, its inherent plasticity also means it has the potential for healing and positive change.

Breaking Negative Patterns: Just as EFT seeks to identify and change negative interaction cycles in couples, the EVRYMAN method aims to help men recognize and break out of unhelpful patterns in their lives, whether in relationships, work, or personal habits.

Breathing Techniques: Huberman discusses various breathing exercises and their impact on the autonomic nervous system, calming the stress response, and enhancing focus.

Building Connection: The EVRYMAN method emphasizes the importance of authentic social connections for men’s emotional well-being. With insights from the Polyvagal Theory, men can better appreciate the physiological basis of this need and work to nurture their ventral vagal responses.

Building Emotional Redundancy: Just as redundancy can be protective in antifragile systems, the EVRYMAN method can help men build a “buffer” of emotional understanding and resilience, helping them withstand shocks in their personal lives.

Catalyst: Activate change by bringing in new impute into the system.

Cellular Memory: This isn’t about cells “remembering” in the same way our brains do, but cells in the body can undergo changes based on their experiences. For instance, immune cells “remember” pathogens, and skin cells can become more resilient with repeated, mild UV exposure.

Challenging Stereotypes: The recognition of neurodivergence can challenge societal stereotypes about what it means to be “normal” or “capable.” Understanding that capability and intelligence manifest in numerous ways can lead to greater appreciation and fewer preconceived notions about what men “should” be like.

Circadian Rhythm: The body’s internal clock that regulates the sleep-wake cycle. He has shared insights into how light affects our circadian rhythm and overall well-being.

Co-regulation: This refers to the mutual process by which external regulation (from caregivers, for instance) helps an individual develop internal regulation capacities. Over time, this external help leads to the individual’s ability to self-regulate emotions and behaviors.

Cognitive Artifacts: Physical objects made by humans for the purpose of aiding, enhancing, or improving cognitive performance. An example is a calculator, which extends our mathematical abilities.

Cognitive Offloading: The act of using external tools or resources to reduce the cognitive load or mental effort required to complete tasks. For instance, writing a note can be seen as a form of cognitive offloading.

Collective Wisdom: Group settings, like those in EVRYMAN gatherings, can serve as a form of distributed cognition, where the collective insight, experiences, and wisdom of the group can help individuals navigate personal challenges.

Community and Connection: While RLT often happens in a therapeutic context, its ultimate goal, like EVRYMAN’s, is fostering genuine connection—with oneself and with others.

Containment: A process to help individuals develop a safe “container” for their traumatic memories and emotions, so they can be processed without overwhelming the person.

Cortisol: A hormone associated with stress. Huberman delves into the effects of cortisol on the body and how certain practices can help regulate its levels.

Creating Healthy Relationships: Both Terry Real’s work and the EVRYMAN approach prioritize the cultivation of healthy, respectful relationships where individuals feel seen, heard, and valued.

Creating Secure Bonds: Central to EFT is the idea of creating a secure emotional bond between partners, ensuring that each feels safe, valued, and connected.

Cultural and Societal Impact on Relationships: Perel often examines how culture, society, and history shape our expectations and experiences of love, desire, and commitment.

Defensive Responses: Bodily responses, such as fight, flight, or freeze, that arise in response to perceived threats. These can become habitual patterns, even when the threat is no longer present.

Definition of Neurodivergent: Refers to individuals with neurological differences from the typical or “neurotypical” population, often encompassing conditions like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, among others, promoting acceptance and understanding of these differences.

Developmental Trauma: Chronic exposure to adverse experiences during childhood. This form of trauma can lead to changes in brain architecture and can influence behavior, cognition, and emotional regulation throughout life.

Dissociation: A common response to trauma, it involves disconnecting from the present moment, one’s emotions, or one’s physical sensations.

Distributed Cognition: Cognitive processes can be distributed across members of social groups, suggesting that thinking and decision-making can be a collective process.

Diversity of Experience: Each neurodivergent man will have unique experiences, challenges, and strengths. Some might excel in creative tasks, while others might have unique ways of problem-solving. Understanding neurodivergence means appreciating these differences.

Dopamine: A neurotransmitter involved in motivation, reward, and pleasure. Huberman has spoken about dopamine’s role in driving action and achieving goals.

Dorsal Vagal Complex (DVC): This older, reptilian branch of the vagus nerve supports digestion and can lead to immobilization behaviors during intense stress or perceived life threats. It’s sometimes associated with feelings of dissociation or “shutdown.”

Dualism of Domesticity and Eroticism: Perel notes the inherent tension between the security and predictability needed for a stable relationship (domesticity) and the novelty and mystery required for erotic desire.

Dysregulated Arousal: This term signifies when someone’s emotional state becomes extremely heightened or subdued, pushing them out of their window of tolerance.

Ecstasis: A term used by Kotler to describe non-ordinary states of consciousness that have profound positive effects.

Embodied Cognition: The theory that our cognitive processes are not just the result of brain activity but are also deeply rooted in the body’s interactions with its environment.

Embodied Experiences: EVRYMAN exercises often involve tapping into physical sensations and body awareness, aligning with the concept of embodied cognition, where the body’s state and experiences influencecognitive and emotional processes.

Embodiment: the idea that the mind and body are interconnected, influencing one another. In robotics, it denotes giving physical form to artificial entities. 

Embracing Uncertainty: By fostering open dialogue about emotions and vulnerabilities, the EVRYMAN approach helps men become more comfortable with uncertainties, preparing them to better handle unpredictable “Black Swan” events in their personal lives.

Emotional and Bodily Awareness: Both Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and EVRYMAN emphasize the significance of being in tune with one’s emotions and the sensations of the body, understanding that they are interconnected.

Emotional Awareness and Expression: Both EFT and the EVRYMAN method prioritize understanding, expressing, and regulating emotions. While EFT is focused on couples, EVRYMAN encourages men to delve into their emotions to improve their overall well-being and relationships.

Emotional Awareness: Both EFT and the EVRYMAN approach emphasize the importance of recognizing, understanding, and appropriately expressing emotions. For men in EVRYMAN groups, this can translate to being more attuned to their emotions and understanding how they influence their actions and relationships.

Emotional Awareness: Both Hakomi and the EVRYMAN method emphasize connecting with and understanding our emotional experiences. Hakomi does this through mindfulness and body awareness, while EVRYMAN uses group sharing and exercises.

Emotional Awareness: Both Van der Kolk’s work and the EVRYMAN method emphasize the importance of becoming aware of one’s emotions. Recognizing and processing trauma-related emotions can be pivotal for healing.

Emotional Contagion: This is the phenomenon of having one person’s emotions and related behaviors directly trigger similar emotions and behaviors in other people.

Emotional Openness: Both RLT and EVRYMAN emphasize the importance of men being emotionally open and vulnerable, countering societal norms that often encourage emotional suppression in men.

Emotional Physiology and Somaware™: explores the interaction between emotions and the physical body, examining how emotions impact physiological processes and how bodily responses can affect emotional experiences.

Emotional Physiology: The study of how emotions are connected to physiological changes and responses in the body, such as heart rate, hormone secretion, and muscle tension.

Emotional Regulation: By recognizing which part of their nervous system is active, men can better understand their emotional states, whether they’re in “fight or flight,” “shutdown,” or “social engagement.” This awareness helps in practicing self-regulation and developing better emotional resilience.

Emotional Responsiveness: A crucial component in relationship therapy where partners are encouraged to be emotionally available, attuned, and responsive to one another.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT): A therapeutic approach primarily used with couples to reinforce the emotional bond between them and address negative patterns of interaction.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT): As previously discussed, EFT is a therapeutic approach for couples focused on reinforcing the emotional bond between partners and addressing patterns of interaction that might be causing distress.

Empathic Resonance: This is when one person’s emotions activate similar emotional experiences in another person. This phenomenon can be considered related to mirror neurons’ role in empathy.

Empathy and Communication: Applying the concept of neurodivergence encourages all men to be more empathetic and understanding. Recognizing that someone might think or process information differently can lead to better, more patient communication and stronger connections.

Empowerment and Agency: Both Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and the EVRYMAN method aim to empower individuals to have more agency over their emotional experiences and responses.

Environmental Influence: The EVRYMAN approach recognizes that a man’s emotional state is influenced by external factors, mirroring the extended mind’s idea of externalism. The environment, relationships, and experiences all play roles in shaping one’s emotional well-being.

Epigenetic Reprogramming: The idea of resetting the age of cells by tinkering with the epigenetic markers that tell genes when to turn on or off.

Erotic Intelligence: A concept Esther Perel discusses at length, which is the ability to maintain desire over time, especially within long-term relationships. This doesn’t only relate to sexuality but to the liveliness, vibrancy, and curiosity in relationships.

Expanding Tolerance: Just as trauma can narrow one’s window of tolerance, making it hard to cope with stress, the EVRYMAN method seeks to expand men’s capacity to deal with emotional challenges, fostering resilience.

Experiments: In Hakomi, therapeutic experiments are conducted in mindfulness to evoke experiences that illuminate core beliefs and patterns.

Exploration of Desire and Needs: While Perel often discusses this in a romantic context, the EVRYMAN method encourages men to explore their innermost desires, needs, and feelings in all aspects of life.

Exploring Male Identity: Real’s insights into male psychology, including concepts like grandiosity and shame, can offer participants in EVRYMAN groups a framework for understanding their behaviors and emotions.

External Expression: By encouraging men to openly express their emotions, the EVRYMAN method allows for a form of cognitive offloading. Sharing and discussing feelings can help in processing them.

Externalism: The idea that our cognitive processes and understanding of concepts can be dependent upon the environment and not just internal neural processes.

Facing Difficult Emotions: Both methods encourage confronting and working through difficult emotions like shame, rather than avoiding or suppressing them.

Fear and Stress Response: Huberman studies the neural circuits responsible for fear and stress responses and has provided practical tools and insights on how to manage and mitigate these states.

Fight, Flight, Freeze: These are basic responses to perceived threats. Levine posits that trauma can occur when these responses aren’t allowed to complete – for instance, when one can neither flee from nor confront a threat and becomes “stuck” in a freeze response.

Flow States: Central to much of Kotler’s work, flow is described as an optimal state of consciousness where individuals feel their best and perform their best. It’s characterized by complete immersion in an activity, loss of self-consciousness, and a sense of time distortion.

Freeze Response: A primal defensive reaction where the body “shuts down” when faced with threats, particularly if fighting or fleeing seems impossible. In PTSD, individuals might feel “frozen” or immobilized when reminded of their trauma, even long after the event. This physiological response can make them feel stuck or numb, highlighting the need for therapies that address both mind and body.

Grandiosity: One of the hallmarks of traditional male psychology, as identified by Real. Grandiosity involves overestimating one’s importance or abilities and can be a defense against feelings of worthlessness or vulnerability.

Grounding in the Present: Both SE and the EVRYMAN approach recognize the value of grounding exercises to anchor individuals in the present moment, fostering mindfulness and connection.

Grounding Techniques: Both methodologies use grounding exercises to help participants remain present, especially during challenging emotional experiences.

Grounding: A technique to connect individuals to the present moment and to their physical body. Grounding exercises might involve feeling one’s feet on the floor or noticing one’s breath.

Group Cohesion and Healing: The EVRYMAN approach heavily utilizes group settings, recognizing the therapeutic value of shared experience and mutual support. Van der Kolk also acknowledges the importance of communal aspects of healing from trauma.

Group Cohesion: Just as group flow can elevate a team’s performance, the group settings in EVRYMAN workshops and retreats can lead to collective nsights, shared emotional release, and stronger interpersonal bonds.

Group Flow: The phenomenon where a collective group – be it a team, a company, or any other unit – is in a shared flow state, resulting in elevated erformance levels.

Group Support: While SE is often conducted as individual therapy, the principle of communal or shared healing is echoed in the EVRYMAN groups, where men come together to share, listen, and support one another.

Growth through Adversity: Just as antifragile systems benefit from stressors, the EVRYMAN method recognizes that men can grow emotionally and psychologically by confronting and working through challenges, rather than avoiding them.

Habituation and Sensitization: These are forms of non-associative learning where an organism reduces (habituation) or increases (sensitization) its response to a stimulus after repeated exposures.

Hallmarks of Aging: These are the primary causes of aging, which Sinclair discusses in depth. They include things like telomere attrition, mitochondrial dysfunction, and cellular senescence.

Healing and Growth: EFT, especially as championed by figures like George Faller, focuses on healing relational wounds and fostering growth. Similarly, the EVRYMAN ethos is about personal growth, healing past wounds, and becoming more authentic and emotionally attuned men.

High Consequence Environments: Many of Kotler’s investigations into flow stem from observing people in high-risk environments, like extreme sports, where peak performance can be a matter of life and death.

Holistic Approach: Hakomi’s principle of unity resonates with EVRYMAN’s holistic approach to emotional health, emphasizing that all aspects of an individual are interconnected.

Homeostasis: In a general sense, this is the tendency of biological systems to maintain stability while adjusting to conditions that are optimal for survival. If homeostasis is successful, life continues; if unsuccessful, it results in a disease or death. The body’s ability to regulate its internal environment is analogous to the brain’s ability to adapt and change.

Honor: Complimenting a man and dissolving shame

Hormesis: A biological phenomenon wherein a beneficial effect results from exposure to low doses of an agent that is otherwise toxic or lethal when given at higher doses. This concept is akin to the idea that “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”

Iatrogenics: Harm done by the healer. In the context of the book, it pertains mostly to medicine, but the broader idea is that interventions, especially when done without a full understanding, can cause harm.

Impact of Societal Norms: Just as Perel delves into how societal norms shape our relationship expectations, EVRYMAN groups address how society’s expectations of masculinity can limit men’s emotional expression.

Infidelity: Perel provides a nuanced exploration of infidelity in modern relationships, diving into reasons for affairs and their impact. She encourages couples to see infidelity as an opportunity for dialogue and growth, rather than just a crisis.

Information and Authenticity: Sinclair’s Information Theory of Aging deals with the loss of genetic “authenticity” or proper gene expression. In a parallel sense, the EVRYMAN method encourages men to find and express their authentic selves, suggesting that a loss of personal “information” or authenticity can lead to emotional challenges.

Information Theory of Aging: Sinclair posits that aging is not just wear and tear but a loss of information, specifically the epigenetic information that tells our genes when and where to be read.

Integrate: Connect to previously separate aspects of self.

Integrating Past and Present: Van der Kolk’s work emphasizes the need to integrate traumatic memories, making sense of the past to live fully in the present. The EVRYMAN method, while not explicitly a trauma therapy, similarly encourages men to confront past experiences and emotions to foster present-moment authenticity and connection.

Internal Working Model: Stemming from attachment theory, it’s the concept that children form mental representations of their relationship with their primary caregivers, and these models guide their interactions with others in later life.

Joining Through The Truth: A technique used in RLT where the therapist connects with the client by speaking the truth in a direct yet compassionate manner.

Joint Attention: This is the shared focus of two individuals on an object and is achieved when one individual alerts another to an object by means of eye-gazing, pointing, or other verbal or non-verbal indications.

Longevity and Quality of Life: Both Sinclair’s work and the EVRYMAN method aim for enhanced quality of life. While Sinclair focuses on biological longevity, EVRYMAN emphasizes emotional well-being and the longevity of a fulfilling, connected life.

Mindfulness: A state of consciousness in which one is aware of their internal processes without getting lost in them. It’s used in Hakomi as a primary tool for self-study and self-discovery.

Mindfulness: While it’s central to Hakomi, mindfulness is also encouraged in EVRYMAN groups as a tool for self-awareness and connection.

Mirror Neurons: These are a type of neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another. They’ve been implicated in a number of social processes, including empathy and understanding others’ intentions.

Mitophagy: A specialized form of autophagy, mitophagy targets damaged or surplus mitochondria. It ensures that faulty mitochondria are removed, promoting cellular health.

Motivation and Reward: Understanding the role of neurotransmitters like dopamine in goal-setting and achievement can support men in their personal growth journeys, aligning with the EVRYMAN method’s emphasis on personal evelopment.

Motivation and Reward: Understanding the role of neurotransmitters like dopamine in goal-setting and achievement can support men in their personal growth journeys, aligning with the EVRYMAN method’s emphasis on personal development.

Motor Learning: This is a form of procedural memory that involves refining the motor skills through practice and experience. It is a more specific form of what’s colloquially known as muscle memory.

Movement and Posture: In Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, particular attention is given to movements and postures that reflect past traumas or experiences. By changing these, one can access and integrate repressed memories and emotions.

Muscle Memory: When you practice a movement repeatedly, your muscles become more efficient at performing that movement. This is not because the muscles “remember” in the way the brain does, but because the neural pathways that control these movements become more efficient.

NAD+: A molecule that declines as we age and is essential for sirtuins to function. Sinclair discusses the potential of NAD+ boosting compounds in combatting the aging process.

Negative Cycles of Interaction: EFT often identifies negative patterns of interaction in relationships, where partners react to each other in ways that perpetuate conflict or distance.

Neural Basis of Attachment: Research has shown distinct neural circuits involved in attachment relationships, especially between caregivers and their young ones. The hormone oxytocin plays a significant role in this bonding process.

Neuro-Associative Conditioning (NAC): A core concept in Robbins’ teachings, it’s about reconditioning the brain to associate pain with unwanted behaviors and pleasure with desired behaviors, leading to lasting change.

Neurobiological Basis: Both Kotler and the EVRYMAN method recognize the neurobiological underpinnings of certain states of consciousness, whether it’s the flow state or deep emotional connection.

Neurobiology: Kotler delves into the neurobiological underpinnings of flow states, exploring how neurotransmitters, brain waves, and brain regions contribute to this state of optimal function.

Neuroception: A term coined by Porges, neuroception refers to our nervous system’s ability to subconsciously detect threats or safety cues from our environment or internal body state. This process bypasses conscious thought.

Neurogenesis: This is the process by which new neurons are formed in the brain. For a long time, it was believed that neurogenesis only occurred during development, but more recent research has shown that it can occur in certain parts of the adult brain, notably the hippocampus.

Neuroplasticity: The ability of the brain to change and reorganize itself by forming new neural connections. Huberman discusses the practical applications of this, such as how certain behaviors can enhance or diminish neuroplasticity.

Neuroplasticity: The brain’s ability to change and adapt. Van der Kolk discusses how trauma can reshape the brain but also how therapeutic interventions can promote healing and positive change.

Nonlinear Growth: Personal growth doesn’t always follow a straightforward path. Engaging in the practices of the EVRYMAN method may lead to unexpected realizations and disproportionate personal breakthroughs from eemingly small insights.

Nonlinearity: The idea that the relationship between input and output is not always straightforward. Small changes can sometimes have disproportionate impacts.

Nonviolence and Respect: Both approaches emphasize creating a safe, respectful environment. In Hakomi, this is a foundational principle. In EVRYMAN, it’s about creating a non-judgmental space for men to express themselves.

Nonviolence: A principle of Hakomi, it emphasizes respect for the innate wisdom of the individual and their system, avoiding force or manipulation.

Optical Stimulation: Using light to affect neural activity, an area of research in Huberman’s lab.

Optimal Functioning: Both Sinclair’s work on longevity and the principles of the EVRYMAN method strive for optimal functioning, be it at a cellular level or emotional and interpersonal level.

Organizing Principles: These are deeply held beliefs, memories, habits, and images which shape our daily experiences. They often operate outside of conscious awareness.

Overcompensation: The mechanism through which antifragile systems benefit from stressors. Just as our body might overcompensate for a minor injury by healing stronger than before, emotional and psychological systems can grow stronger through facing challenges.

Patterns of Interaction: Just as EFT identifies patterns like pursuers and withdrawers, the EVRYMAN method encourages men to recognize their patterns of behavior, especially in relationships, and reflect on their origins and impacts.

Peak Performance: Kotler studies how individuals can achieve their maximum potential, whether in sports, arts, or any other field.

Peak Performance: Robbins frequently addresses the idea of reaching one’s optimal state, both mentally and physically, to achieve goals and live a fulfilled life.

Pendulation: This refers to the natural intrinsic rhythm of the body as it oscillates between contraction (or dysregulation) and expansion (or regulation). Recognizing and honoring this rhythm is a key component of SE.

Performance in Everyday Life: While Kotler’s work often investigates peak performance in extreme environments, the principles can be applied to everyday life. Similarly, the EVRYMAN method helps men perform better in their daily lives – not by achieving flow necessarily, but by connecting with their emotions and authentic selves.

Power of Decisions: Robbins emphasizes the role of decision-making in shaping our destinies. He believes that our lives change the moment we ake a real decision.

Practical Tools for Regulation: Techniques such as controlled breathing, which Huberman often discusses, can be integrated into the EVRYMAN practice to help men calm their nervous systems and approach their emotions from a grounded state.

Practical Tools for Regulation: Techniques such as controlled breathing, which Huberman often discusses, can be integrated into the EVRYMAN practice to help men calm their nervous systems and approach their emotions from a grounded state.

Presence: Experiencing what is occurring in the present moment.

Primary Emotions: In EFT, primary emotions are those immediate, instinctive emotional reactions to situations. Recognizing and understanding these can be key to changing interaction patterns in relationships.

Processing Trauma and Emotion: While Levine’s work is explicitly centered on trauma, both SE and the EVRYMAN method recognize the profound impact of unprocessed emotions and experiences on current well-being. Both approaches aim to provide tools and spaces to process these emotions safely.

Pursuers and Withdrawers: In the context of relationship dynamics and EFT, Faller often talks about the roles of “pursuers” (those who typically seek more connection and communication) and “withdrawers” (those who tend to pull away or distance themselves during conflicts). Recognizing and understanding these patterns can be key to facilitating better communication.

Redundancy: In nature and in systems, having “extra” can sometimes be rotective, rather than inefficient.

Reframe: Create a more encompassing context. 

Regulation of Arousal: The concept of the “window of tolerance” and managing dysregulated arousal is essential in both. While Ogden provides tools rooted in somatic experiences, EVRYMAN allows men to express and understand their emotional states in a supportive environment.

Regulation: The ability to manage and modulate physiological and emotional states. Trauma can disrupt the brain’s regulatory systems, leading to challenges like impulsivity or emotional dysregulation.

Relational Health: The importance of healthy, consistent relationships in promoting healing and resilience. Positive relationships can act as protective factors against the adverse effects of trauma.

Relational Mindfulness: This involves being consciously present in relationships, aware of one’s behavior, and taking responsibility for it.

Relationship Dynamics: Even though Perel focuses largely on romantic relationships, many of her insights about dynamics, communication, and intimacy can apply to other relationships, including those between men in an EVRYMAN group.

Repetitive, Predictable Interactions: Perry emphasizes the importance of consistent and predictable interactions in healing the traumatized brain. This could mean rhythmic activities, routines, or even therapeutic interventions.

Resilience: Just as Sinclair explores cellular resilience and the body’s capacity to repair itself, the EVRYMAN method fosters emotional resilience in men, helping them navigate challenges and thrive emotionally.

Resilience: While Sinclair discusses resilience in the context of cellular health and longevity, the concept is also about overcoming challenges and thriving n adverse situations.

ROC: Slow down to Relax, Open up to vulnerability, risk Connection.

Safe Processing of Trauma: Both approaches believe in the importance of safely processing traumatic experiences to achieve healing. While EVRYMAN provides a group setting for open expression, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy offers techniques that integrate body and mind to process trauma.

Safe Spaces for Dialogue: Perel’s therapeutic approach emphasizes creating a non-judgmental space for couples to openly discuss issues. Similarly, the EVRYMAN method is built around the idea of creating safe spaces for men to express themselves without judgment.

Safe Spaces for Expression: Levine’s work is rooted in creating safe therapeutic spaces for individuals to process trauma. Similarly, the EVRYMAN method emphasizes the creation of safe, non-judgmental spaces for men to express and explore their emotions.

Safe Spaces: Both approaches prioritize creating a safe, non-judgmental space for individuals to explore and express their emotions. In EFT, this is often the therapy room, while in the EVRYMAN approach, it’s their group meetings.

Safe Spaces: Just as trauma survivors benefit from safe spaces to explore and process their experiences, the EVRYMAN method emphasizes creating safe environments for men to express their vulnerabilities.

Secondary Emotions: These are emotional reactions to primary emotions. For example, feeling angry (secondary emotion) because you are hurt (primary emotion).

Self-Exploration: Both methods focus on the individual’s journey of self-exploration and understanding. While Hakomi uses therapeutic experiments in mindfulness, EVRYMAN might use group exercises and sharing.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: A body-oriented therapeutic method that integrates verbal techniques with body-centered interventions in the treatment of trauma, attachment, and developmental issues.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Pat Ogden, Ph.D., is renowned for her pioneering work in somatic psychology and her development of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy approach. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy integrates both cognitive and somatic (body-based) therapies to address the effects of trauma, attachment issues, and developmental problems. 

Sensory Adaptation: This is the process by which our sensory receptors become more or less sensitive to certain stimuli. For example, when you first step into a dark room, you can’t see much, but after a while, your eyes adjust, and you can see better. This adaptation helps organisms respond more appropriately to their environments.

Shame: Another cornerstone of Real’s understanding of male psychology. Shame, especially toxic shame, can be at the root of many harmful behaviors and patterns, particularly in men.

Shared Emotional Processing: Just as distributed cognition posits that thinking can be a collective process, EVRYMAN groups provide a space where emotions and experiences can be processed collectively, thus “extending” the emotional mind.

Shared Exploration: Sinclair’s work often emphasizes collaborative scientific exploration and pushing the boundaries of what we know about aging. Similarly, the EVRYMAN method emphasizes shared exploration of emotions  and experiences in a group setting.

Shared Neural Networks: Beyond just mirror neurons, there’s evidence that when we understand another’s action or emotion, many of the same neural networks involved in performing such actions or experiencing such emotions are activated.

Sirtuins: A family of proteins that Sinclair and other researchers believe play a key role in longevity. They are involved in DNA repair, inflammation regulation, and other processes related to aging.

Six Human Needs: According to Robbins, there are six fundamental needs that drive all human behavior: Certainty, Uncertainty/Variety, Significance, Connection/Love, Growth, and Contribution.

Social Engagement System: Facilitated by the VVC, this system supports our ability to connect with others through facial expressions, vocal tone, and listening. It helps in creating feelings of safety and trust.

Social Regulation of the HPA Axis: The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is a major neuroendocrine system that regulates responses to stress and other processes. Social interactions, particularly in early life, can influence the regulation of this system.

Softening: A term used in EFT when one partner is able to show vulnerability and reach out for connection, often leading to a more positive interaction and deeper emotional bond.

Softening: Within EFT, softening refers to moments when a person in a relationship can be vulnerable, allowing their partner to see and understand their deeper emotions and needs.

Somatic Experiencing (SE): This is Levine’s therapeutic approach designed to address trauma by focusing on the client’s perceived body sensations (or somatic experiences).

Somatic Resources: Tools or interventions to help individuals stabilize and regulate their bodily arousal. This could be grounding exercises, breath work, or other body-centered techniques.

Space and Closeness in Relationships: The idea that too much closeness can smother desire, while too much distance can create alienation. Perel talks about maintaining a balance where both partners have space for individuality and together form a deep connection.

Spontaneous Self-Discovery: The goal of Hakomi isn’t to interpret or diagnose but to support the individual in their own journey of self-discovery.

State-dependent Functioning: Our ability to think, reason, and learn is dependent on our physiological and emotional state. When someone is gitated or anxious, their cognitive capabilities can be limited.

State, Story, Strategy: A framework Robbins uses. He believes that before adopting a strategy to succeed, one must be in the right emotional state and have the right story or belief about oneself.

Support: Just as every man has unique needs, neurodivergent men might require specific support or accommodations, especially in environments structured around neurotypical norms. This could be in the form of additional time on tasks, assistive technologies, or specialized learning techniques.

Sympathetic Nervous System: This system prepares the body for “fight or flight” responses to threats. When overactivated, it can lead to feelings of anxiety, restlessness, or aggression.

Synchrony: In developmental psychology, synchrony refers to the coordinated, rhythmic timing of interactions between caregiver and child. This mutual interplay is important for emotional regulation and attachment.

The Body Reveals: The idea that the body holds and manifests our emotional experiences, traumas, and beliefs, making it an essential focus for therapeutic exploration in Hakomi.

The Quality of the Relationship as a Safe Space: For Perel, a good relationship is a safe harbor where both partners feel they can be their authentic selves, be vulnerable, and experience mutual respect.

Titration: In SE therapy, titration refers to slowly processing trauma in manageable bits, rather than reliving the traumatic event all at once. This makes the process of healing less overwhelming.

Trauma Vortex and Counter Vortex: Concepts introduced by Levine, where the trauma vortex represents the pull of traumatic energy and memories, while the counter vortex represents the opposing, healing forces. SE therapy works to balance these vortices.

Trauma: At the core of the book is the exploration of trauma – experiences that overwhelm an individual’s capacity to cope, often leaving lasting impacts on the mind and body.

Trust and Safety: Both Faller’s EFT work and the EVRYMAN method highlight the significance of creating safe spaces where individuals feel they can be themselves, trust others, and share without judgment.

Understanding Safety and Trust: Recognizing how our nervous system detects safety or threat (neuroception) can help men identify what triggers their defensive responses. With this understanding, they can work towards creating environments and relationships that foster feelings of safety and connection.

Understanding Stress and Emotional Responses: Huberman’s research on stress, fear, and the body’s responses provides scientific insights that can help men understand their physiological reactions. This understanding can facilitate better emotional regulation.

Understanding Stress and Emotional Responses: Huberman’s research on stress, fear, and the body’s responses provides scientific insights that can help men understand their physiological reactions. This understanding can facilitate better emotional regulation.

Unity: An understanding that everything is interconnected, and all parts of an individual are related. A change in one area can impact others.

Vagus Nerve: As described by Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal Theory, is a dual-branched neural pathway: one branch (ventral vagal) promotes social connections and positive emotional states, while the other (dorsal vagal) manages stress-induced freeze or shutdown behaviors. This perspective positions the vagus nerve as pivotal in determining our social behaviors and emotional reactions to stress. Porges emphasizes its integral role in human connection and response mechanisms. One of the cranial nerves, the vagus nerve plays a vital role in regulating the body’s parasympathetic nervous system (the “rest and digest” system).

Ventral Vagal Complex (VVC): A newer, mammalian branch of the vagus nerve that regulates the heart and lungs. It supports social engagement behaviors, facial expression, and vocalization. When this system is active, people tend to feel safe, connected, and calm.

Vulnerability and Authenticity: Both Perel’s work and the EVRYMAN approach emphasize the importance of being genuine and vulnerable in relationships. For men in EVRYMAN groups, this often means breaking down societal expectations and being open about fears, desires, and emotions.

Vulnerability: EFT often involves helping partners express vulnerabilities to one another. Similarly, the EVRYMAN approach promotes vulnerability as a strength, encouraging men to share openly and authentically.

Vulnerability: Softening, in the context of EFT, is akin to moments in EVRYMAN groups where participants are encouraged to be open, genuine, and vulnerable, creating deeper connections with others.

Window of Tolerance: Refers to the zone of arousal in which a person is able to function effectively. When people are outside of this window, they may be either hyperaroused (overly agitated) or hypoaroused (shut down).

Window of Tolerance: The optimal zone of arousal where a person can function effectively. Trauma can narrow this window, making it harder for individuals to cope with stressors.