Are you worried about your son? Your grandson? Your young male clients?

Our boys and young men have been crying out to us for help, but their cries are in the form of nature’s alarms signaling their distress: Behavioral, learning, and emotional problems; behavioral and chemical addictions; failure-to-launch; gender dysphoria; apathy; violence and criminal behavior; and suicide.

This book will bring you on a bewildering, breathtaking journey through the traumatic primal wounds suffered by our Millennial and Generation Z sons and the socio-political, digital, neuro-chemical, and endocrine dangers hijacking their holistic wellbeing. This journey takes mothers and fathers by the hand through step-by-step principles, actions, advocacy, and treatments that will actually help their sons heal.

Nurturing and Empowering Our Sons provides the puzzle pieces, insights, and solutions missing from other books about boys. It shifts the focus from the problem being within the boy to our society being out of alignment with nature’s intent for the boy’s optimal development. It boldly tackles tough topics like male body shaming, male victims of sexual assault, circumcision, psychiatric drugging, sexism against males, the male suicide epidemic, and many more.

This book covers historical, anthropological, scientific, socio-political, and current topics pertaining to our sons. It is written in a sensitive, conversational format, interwoven with graphics, lists, and resources. It also features insights and final interviews from Laurie’s adoptive son, Brycen, an extreme child trauma victim who succumbed to suicide at age 23.

Nurturing and Empowering Our Sons is a deep-dive into Laurie A. Couture’s “nature’s intent” philosophy. It offers hope and is packed with guidance on neuro-somatic trauma healing, attachment repair, unschooling, alternative education, holistic health practices, adjunct therapies, direct advocacy, opportunities for family fun and community involvement, and so much more! It covers boys ages pre-birth to mid-20s with mild, moderate, severe, and extreme behavioral healthcare needs and includes a special chapter for guiding the behavior of special needs sons without using behavioral modification techniques.