Part of our spiritual practice is taking good care of our physical selves. That’s a truth that we need to teach our male children with special intention, because our culture is loaded with message that men are supposed to persevere through pain, rub dirt in their wounds, and just “suck it up.” Men who visit their doctor are seen as weak, and the result is that men in their 40s and 50s are paying a physical price for buying into our cultural biases.