Hello World. Welcome to Picking Up the Pieces. Most men learn early that the safest way to get through life is to tough it out. Patch the problem. Stay busy. Keep moving. If something feels off, push it down and deal with it later. That approach can get you through a lot, until the day it doesn’t. Inside out healing is a different way forward. It is not a program and it is not a grand transformation. It is a slow, steady way of paying attention to what is actually happening inside you. The tension in your chest. The knot in your gut. The overreactions that surprise you. The days where you shut down without warning. These things are not character flaws. They are signals. Most of us were never taught how to read those signals. I certainly wasn’t. I learned through trial, error, loss, recovery, and more rebuilds than I ever expected to have in one lifetime. What changed