Men Archives - Kenny Mammarella D'Cruz

5 Ways Men Can Get A Better Night’s Sleep

Dec 4, 2018 | Men

Despite its importance to their everyday lives, not many men are getting the right amount of sleep at night. Not only does sleep increase their energy levels and productivity, but it makes men look fresher and improves their mood. A personal development consultant,...

Who Are You Without Your Body

Nov 16, 2018 | Men

Who are you without your body? How much does it define you? How much do you let it? In a world of social media, we are flooded with fitness journeys and new diets every time we log on and it’s easy to get caught up in, and for some, the effects of being bombarded with...

‘The Game’: players, prostitutes, lads and ladies of the night

May 19, 2017 | Men, relationships

When Lauren asked if she could kiss me, I instinctively said “no” and tagged another guy to take my place in the scene – a snog was far too ‘in your face’ for my liking, and definitely too intimate for happily married me. A couple of scenes later, I...

10 Tips for the Maturing Male

Jan 27, 2017 | Men

Here are the top ten things that surprised me about ageing: Flirting I can get away with flirting, challenging, questioning, laying boundaries, being cheeky and giving compliments like I’d never imagined! I wonder whether it’s my tone, my attitude, or that I’m no...

MAN UP! How to grow from suffering in silence to connecting with confidence

Mar 3, 2016 | Featured, Men

BBC3 Online recently released a powerful four minute documentary called “It’s Tough Being A Man”. It’s about depression in men and how men stay silent about it. I was happy to be one of the men filmed for this documentary because I strongly support the message that we...

My Wings Got Singed On My Flight For Fame

May 18, 2015 | Featured, Men

Last month my best friends and I gathered around a TV set and watched ourselves die! Not literally, but our egos took a bashing as our shadows were paraded on Channel 4’s Cutting Edge documentary ‘The Secret Life of The Pub’. We were asked to reveal what’s...

Why I Asked The ‘Newsweek’ Journalist When He Last Ejaculated

Mar 29, 2015 | Featured, Men

I spent many hours chatting to ‘Newsweek’ journalist Finlay Young, even before he joined in one of our men’s groups. Fin had asked if he could meet up for help with a ‘Newsweek’ cover story article he’s writing. They quoted me, with a picture, plus wrote ‘The...

Dirty Little Secrets: Men, Trauma, and Mental Health

Feb 9, 2015 | Featured, Men, Uncategorized

Kenny D’Cruz was eight years old when his father took a phone call at his family home saying ‘we’re going to come and kill you tonight.’ “My father was declared an enemy of the state by Idi Amin’s Secret Service in 1972. He made a joke about the phone call” Kenny...

Johnny Be Bad

Mar 21, 2014 | Life purpose, Men, refugee, relationships

You are currently watching me lose my blogging virginity ..and I must admit, yet again, it’s a BIG relief! I remember walking home that morning through my adopted home town, past nosey neighbours with light breezes blowing wafts of sex from my pubescent skin...

John-Boy’s Death Wish (From Suicidal To Sledgehammer)

Feb 3, 2014 | Featured, Life purpose, Men, refugee, relationships

2014 Nine years old and we’d just moved from our second refugee camp – with my secret-service escapee father, who had been absent for nine months – into our new home. A tatty council house in a small town in 70s rural Wales, with lovely neighbours. The feeling I...

Ol’ Grey Hair Is Back

Jan 16, 2014 | Men

Originally published in my ‘Changing Times’ Column in 2006 This will be the third time I’ve had to deal with that pesky chest hair that so loudly contrasts all the others. I’ve treated it with far more respect than last months discovery: a grey pube which...

Man’s Nature, Calm and Real

Oct 16, 2013 | Men

‘Changing Times’ Column 2006 – 2007 Have you noticed that when women speak, they sit facing one another; where when men speak, we generally face the same direction, discussing someone or something other than ourselves? Male eye contact, in our society, is...