When the world feels loud, uncertain, and overwhelming, the call of the spiritual warrior is to stand tall and listen inward—to the voice of the inner child. The child’s innocence gives the warrior heart, while the warrior’s strength gives the child safety. This week’s reflection reminds us that true power is born where play meets presence, where tenderness and courage walk hand in hand. By planting our invisible spear in the ground, we remember that protecting what is sacred begins within.

Big breakthroughs this week—from men reclaiming the courage to risk after childhood trauma, to others humbly confronting old habits, to those committing fully to purge their energy parasites—the theme is the same: big returns on soulful investments.

Tom and Claire’s 23-year marriage was on the verge of collapse, marked by betrayal, drama, and years of unspoken pain. Yet through courageous honesty, mentorship, and a willingness to face their shadows, they transformed despair into renewal. What began as a relationship held together only for the children became a thriving partnership built on presence, respect, and authentic love.

On the outside, Jordan’s life looked successful—college graduate, good job, his own apartment. But beneath the surface he battled decades of addiction, low self-worth, and loneliness. Through our work together, he learned to reparent himself, dissolve destructive patterns, and open to love. Today, he is free from the addictions that once bound him and lives in a marriage rooted in intimacy, equality, and trust.

We weave together the bounty of New Mexico’s roasted red chile harvest with the simple yet profound act of showing up. Just as chilies become richer and more flavorful in the roaster, we too grow and transform when we place ourselves in the supportive heat and tumble of community.

This week’s TIQA explores healing father wounds through male connection, the cost of “othering,” and the radical inner work of holding tension without collapse — in service of deeper leadership and connection.

This week I witnessed raw rage and the masculine wound being transmuted into healing within a circle of brothers. This is the new masculine paradigm the world is crying for — where anger, when met with honesty, responsibility, and love, is transmuted into healing, growth, and forgiveness.

This week’s TIQA explores how intimate relationships — especially the painful ones — are not detours from growth, but the very path itself. From men confronting self-abandonment and patterns of choosing unavailable partners, to the deeper invitation of heartbreak as a call to wholeness, this issue is about reclaiming the hidden gifts in our relational wounds. If love brings your stuff to the surface, it’s not a sign something’s wrong — it’s a sign you’re ready to heal.

This week’s TIQA shares a moving story from the bedside of a dying cowboy whose final words cut through old ideas of strength and identity. In a world unraveling at the seams, we're reminded that comfort may protect the ego — but it never grows the soul. If you’ve been waiting for the “right time” to live more fully, this is your invitation: take the next small, uncomfortable step toward your deeper self.

This issue dives into the power of men gathering. We explore how pain becomes purpose in brotherhood, why co-leadership matters, and how honest feedback from the women we trust can crack open new levels of self-awareness and integrity.

Feeling needy, stuck, or off in your relationship? This week’s TIQA dives into why — and how to reclaim what you’ve been outsourcing to her. One theme, one insight, one quote, one embodied shift. Get free. Get full. Start relating, not extracting.

In a wordless, sweat-soaked embrace on a Santa Fe dance floor, two men confront the ghosts of their pasts—not through conflict or performance, but through presence. This memoir explores the unspoken intimacy, mutual recognition, and deep healing possible between men who have transformed pain into purpose. It’s a story of brotherhood, vulnerability, and the kind of connection rarely named but deeply needed.