Newsletters

December 2023

  • Empowering your child’s self-image: Fathering Project
  • Book: Wisdom Through Spirituality
  • Healthy Male newsletter
  • Suggested books list for gifts
  • Can Christmas be a tough time of the year?
  • Ways loneliness affects men later in life
  • Rotary for youth. Looking for direction in your life?
  • Dads4Kids website
Check out our Book Reviews website ronsreflections.com.au

  • How important is childhood development?
  • Self-care: Important for men?
  • “Real Love” article by Ann Albers
  • “Song of Joy” sung by Julio Iglesias
  • Australian Men’s Health Forum
  • Major issues Men’s Health
  • Seeing the good in others
  • Helpful websites for Dads
Main focus this month:
To grow and mature spiritually
Click To Download

November 2023

  • Retired men – be involved
  • Being in an Older Men’s group
  • Healthy Male newsletter
  • International Men’s Day 19th November
  • Fathers Support Australia
  • MOVEMBER 2023
  • Mens Line Australia
  • Rotary for youth
  • Special needs and supports for war veterans
Check out of Book Reviews website ronsreflections.com.au

  • Dads4Kids website
  • Support for fathers
  • Special manhood quotes
  • Australian Men’s Health Forum
  • Major issues Men’s Health
  • Grandparenting- a major life issue
  • Special benefits possible from Men’s Sheds
  • Seeing the good in others
  • Helpful websites for Dads
Main focus this month:
International Men’s Day and Movember
Click To Download

October 2023

  • Mental Health Month October 2023
  • Note of appreciation
  • Support Groups: Types, Benefits and What to expect
  • Mens Line Australia
  • Why Inspiration Matters
  • BPD Awareness Week 1-7 October 2023
  • Selected BPD awareness items
  • Empowering your child’s self-image and self- identity

  • For thoughtful contemplation.
  • Dads4Kids website.
  • Seven obstacles to asking for help.
  • Healthy Male newsletter.
  • Major issues Men’s Health.
  • Social activities for senior Australians.
  • Seeing the good in others.
  • Prepare for International Men’s Day 19th November.
  • Helpful websites for Dads.
Main focus this month:
Personal direction in life.
Click To Download

September 2023

  • Farmers sale yards outback social hotspots
  • Being in an Older Men’s Support Group
  • Dads4Kids website
  • Father’s Day in Australia
  • Coping on Father’s Day
  • The WA regional men’s health initiative
  • The Fathering Project
  • Book: Awakening from the Deep Sleep

  • Healthy Male newsletter
  • RUOK? Day 14th September
  • Tomorrow Man
  • The Centre Within
  • Meditation for Men
  • What is bowel cancer?
  • MensLine Australia online support
  • Australian Men’s Health Forum
Main focus this month: 
The past is to learn from for a better future.
Click To Download

August 2023

  • Documentary: Men need men
  • Disconnection and isolation – lack of belonging
  • Dads4Kids website
  • The Man Box – a study on young males
  • The Fathering Project
  • Healthy Male newsletter
  • Beyond Blue for dads
  • Father’s Day 2023
  • Rotary Youth Leadership
Check out our book reviews website: ronsreflections.com.au

  • Recognising our inner feelings.
  • Reaching out to others.
  • Spanner in the Works?
  • Family problems.
  • The inner child.
  • Top Blokes Foundation.
  • The Man Cave.
  • The Raise Foundation.
  • Many websites for Dads.
Main focus this month:
"Developing of our young people"
Click To Download

July 2023

  • Why join a men’s group?
  • The Little Book of Peace: Dalai Lama
  • Child archetype
  • True Listening: Eckhart Tolle
  • Healthy Male newsletter
  • Parents Beyond Breakup, and more
  • Rotaract Australia
  • Dads4Kids website
  • Many websites for Dads
Check out our book reviews website: ronsreflections.com.au

  • Promote a growth mindset in our children
  • Are you doing it tough?
  • Circle of Men
  • Unmet emotional needs
  • Song: “Because Boys”, Rory Phillips
  • Adjusting to retirement
  • Mensline Australia
  • Major issues of Men’s Health websites
Main focus this month:
"Create mental peace"
Click To Download

June 2023

  • Men’s health with Movember website.
  • Domestic violence a serious public concern.
  • Men’s Health week 12-18th June 2023.
  • Men to have better friendships.
  • Social interaction reduces dementia risk.
  • MensLine Australia.
  • Dads4Kids website.
  • Many websites for Dads
Check out our ronsreflections.com.au book review site!

  • Role and function in parenthood.
  • Healthy Male newsletter.
  • Older Men’s and all Men’s support groups.
  • Book: Moving On-pathways to growth and healing.
  • Book: Get Out of Your Own Way (escape from mind-traps).
  • Borderline Personality Disorder qualitative study.
  • Sanctuary BPD Adelaide.
  • Australian Men’s Health Forum national site.
Main focus this month: 
“Focus on deeper personal sharing with someone caring.”

Click To Download

May 2023

  • TOMNET: The Older Men’s Network- Toowoomba QLD
  • Belonging in an Older Men’s Group
  • MensLine Australia
  • WA Regional Men’s Health
  • Recurring negative emotions
  • Mother’s Day, 20th May 2023
  • Award winning program on men’s mental health
  • We have deep emotional needs
Check out our ronsreflections.com.au book review site!

  • Dads4Kids website.
  • Websites for Dads.
  • Unpacking the MAN BOX.
  • Healthy Male newsletter.
  • Older Men’s and all Men’s support groups.
  • Book: Healing the Child Within: Charles L. Whitfield.
  • Australian Men’s Health Forum national site.
  • Origin of The Fathering Project.
  • Inspiration. 
Click To Download

April 2023

  • Reframing masculinity
  • MensLine Australia
  • “Lest we forget” Anzac Day 25th April
  • Rural and remote support
  • Eckhart Tolle books and videos
  • The Fathering Project
  • Dads4Kids programme
  • Helpful for Dads websites: A guide for Dads
Check out our ronsreflections.com.au book review site!

  • Strong relationships, strong health
  • Theme music from movie: Chariots of Fire
  • The tragedy of selling yourself short
  • Book: Why am I afraid to tell you who I am?
  • Teenage years challenges
  • Australian Men’s Health Forum national site
  • Older Men’s and all Men’s support groups
Main focus this month: “Think in terms of possibilities.”

Click To Download

March 2023

  • Three daily motivational books recommended
  • The two most important days in a person’s life
  • Booklet: Discovering Spirituality
  • MensLine Australia web site
  • Ifarmwell (Online toolkit to help farmers
  • Movember SpeakEasy
  • Dads4Kids programme
  • Helpful websites for Dads
Check out our ronsreflections.com.au book review site!

  • Rotary Youth Leadership.
  • Reaching Your Potential (Harvard Business Review.)
  • How a child learns to communicate.
  • Mates in Construction.
  • The Centre Within (Queensland Rural and more.)
  • Benefits of family mealtimes.
  • Older Men’s and all Men’s support groups.
Main focus this month: “We are separated from everyone by the denial of our pain and our true nature.” 

Click To Download

February 2023

  • Man Box- toxic masculinity in young males
  • Who are the thieves of peace?
  • Support for young males in their lives
  • Hopi Elders
  • Dads’ mental health is often overlooked
  • Dads4Kids programme
  • Extensive men’s health referral sites
Check out our ronsreflections.com.au book review site!

  • The Power of Realisation
  • Personality Types
  • Psychology Today: early invalidation and BPD
  • The Centre Within (Queensland rural special)
  • Healthy Male newsletter
  • Out here men’s mental health matters
  • The Sanctuary-Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Main focus this month: Personal change is possible
Click To Download

January 2023

  • Something men could do better
  • Gambling participation
  • New Year greeting
  • In therapy
  • What is toxic masculinity?
  • MensLine Australia
  • National Centre for Farmer Health
Check out our ronsreflections.com.au book review site!

  • How is Dad going?
  • Dads4Kids programme
  • The Centre Within (Queensland rural special)
  • Relationship between mental health and cleaning
  • Maybe he’s grieving. Understanding the way men grieve
  • Healthy Male monthly newsletter
  • What is Active Farmers?
  • Major focus: Community awareness
Click To Download

December 2022

  • Relationships and Communications
  • Un-happy families on Christmas Day
  • Book: “Under Saturn’s Shadow”: James Hollis
  • Self-Improvement (We are all Works-in-progress)
  • Mensline Australia
  • Support for Fathers. Helpful websites for Dads
  • Dads4Kids programme
Check out our ronsreflections.com.au book review site!

  • How to Avoid This Common Pitfall (for parents)
  • About family
  • What is Neurodivergence?
  • Bowel Cancer Australia (Decembeard)
  • Grandparents in Distress
  • Amazing Grace (Carl Ellis with 200 bagpipes at Berlin Tatoo)
  • Major focus: Personal awareness in situations
Click To Download

November 2022

  • Male carers in Australia
  • What is toxic masculinity?
  • Helpful websites for Dads
  • The Movember Foundation
  • Book: “Why am I Afraid to Tell You Who I am?”
  • Find your health age-range: Spanner in the works?
Check out our ronsreflections.com.au book review site!

  • One man’s personal story (from Guardian newspaper.)
  • Men adjusting to retirement. (Mensline Australia.)
  • Useful extract from book: “Resolving Conflict.”
  • WA Regional Men’s Health.
  • We Are Men, a new men’s organisation.
  • Major focus: Make mental health a priority
Click To Download

October 2022

  • Why is Attitude important?
  • Men’s health topics
  • Websites for Dads
  • The Conversation about older men
  • Connection, a basic human need
  • Older people are best remaining connected
  • Web sites groups for older and all men
Be Aware of: Sense of self; sense of direction; sense of purpose.


  • Borderline Personality Awareness Week 1-7th October 2022
  • Mental Health month October. 
  • Booklet: As a Man Thinketh by James Allen.
  • To be Healthier and Happier Men.
  • Reaching out to others has a greater impact.
  • Theme from Time, spoken by Sir Laurence Olivier.
  • Our preset internal life tapes.
  • Finding strength through prioritising your Mental Health. 
Click To Download

September 2022

  • Father’s Day 4th September, 2022
  • The Fathering Project
  • Psychology of Fathers and Sons
  • Dads4Kids: great website and more
  • Men’s Line Australia: coping on Father’s Day
  • Dads Matter
  • Web sites in Australia for Dads, older and all men
  • National/international websites for men health

  • Sanctuary, Adelaide, BPD lived experiences
  • Five common mistakes by BPD families
  • I Believe, a thought by Jean Taylor-Kirwan
  • What is a Men’s Group? (Features a great website.)  
  • Editor’s comment on fathers/sons
  • RUOK? Day 8th September, 2022
  • Health benefits from sharing in men’s groups
  • Main focus: Father’s Day and Men’s Groups
Click To Download

August 2022

  • Mentally healthy workplaces
  • Back Track for youth
  • About Prostate cancer
  • Pregnancy, Birth and Baby for Dads
  • Retired men meeting in groups
  • Dads4Kids: great website and more
  • About the book: The Prince and the King
  • Book: About escaping from mind traps

  • Thinking about the future
  • MISTER Newsletters from year 2009
  • Billy Joel singing: “The Downeaster Alexa.”
  • What is a dysfunctional family?
  • Mensline Australia
  • Web sites in Australia for Dads, older and all men
  • Main focus: Understanding more about being a male
Click To Download

July 2022

  • How do we benefit from social interactions and friendships?
  • Men in rural and remote areas
  • Talkback ABC radio session with Dads
  • Why don’t we prepare men for fatherhood?
  • Retirement: a TED video talk
  • Valued feedback from a subscriber
  • Rotaract Australia: for young people

  • Dads4Kids: great website and more.
  • Youth off the Streets and families.
  • Important C0-dependency aspects.
  • Family life and mental health situations.
  • Important value of families in the community.
  • Web sites in Australia for Dads, older and all men.
  • Main focus: Understanding more about being a male. 
Click To Download

June 2022

  • AMHF Men’s Health Connect 2022
  • Men’s capacities for connection, expression and empathy
  • Is it ok for boys to cry?
  • Co-dependency is a circular relationship
  • Important part of therapy
  • Dads4Kids site
  • Men’s Health Week 13th to 19th June 2022
  • AMF referral sites

  • Re-thinking men and co-dependency
  • Bloke’s friendships make a difference
  • The Fathering Project
  • Bowel Cancer month June 2022
  • Men’s Line Australia
  • Older men’s support groups in Australia
  • Spanner in the works?
Click To Download

May 2022

  • Men’s Groups meetings (Melbourne)
  • Unmet human needs
  • AMHF Men’s Health Connect 2022
  • Black Dog Institute
  • Men’s Health Week 13th to 19th June 2022
  • Healthy Male magazine and website
(Check the many booklets. Elf-help are great.)


  • Value of validation in life
  • Heart health checks
  • Regional Men’s Health rural WA
  • Self-esteem is a major life issue
  • Facebook men’s groups
  • Spanner in the works?
Click To Download

April 2022

  • Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Family Guidelines for BPD families
  • Book: Hidden Victims Hidden Healers: mental illness care
  • Men’s Health Connect – online conference 16-20 May, 2022
  • Unresolved Father Hunger- homework
  • Benefits of singing individually and in groups
  • Australian rural and regional news
  • Loneliness: Causes and health consequences
Check out our book reviews at www.ronsreflections.com.au

  • Is there room for grandparents in all families?
  • How does body image affect our mental health?
  • St. Patrick of Ireland
  • Dads4Kids website
  • Spanner in the works?
  • Mental Health First Aid course
  • Book: Moving On … Pathways to Personal Growth
  • Special birthday
  • Main focus: Keep safe and aware
Click To Download

March 2022

  • About negative emotions
  • Healthy Male magazine
  • Hey Dads, Step Dads and all Dads
  • Rotaract Australia and RYLA
  • The Fathering Project
  • How to help our young people
  • Song: Put a Little Love in Your Heart
Check out our book reviews at www.ronsreflections.com.au

  • Book; Healing the Child Within.
  • MensLine Australia.
  • Dads4Kids website.
  • Spanner in the works?
  • Five reasons why not to join a men’s group.
  • Should children do household chores?
  • Main focus: “Sharing is caring.”
Click To Download

February 2022

  • Centre for Rural & Remote Health
  • Sydney University Research
  • Mr Perfect Men’s Health directory
  • What is Neuroplasticity?
  • Healthy Male magazine
  • The Fathering Project
  • Sharing about men’s mental health
  • Open Arms-War veterans need support
  • Male Carers
Check out our book reviews at www.ronsreflections.com.au

  • Borderline Personality Disorder supports
  • MensLine Australia
  • 14 Quotes to help men
  • Facebook Men’s groups listings
  • Spanner in the Works - Men’s health
  • Booklet: Discovering Spirituality
  • Beyond Blue supports and services
  • Dads4Kids website
  • Main focus: Talking out with meaning and being accepted
Click To Download

January 2022

  • Connectedness and Australian males
  • Could this be true?
  • The most important part of therapy
  • The fragile man
  • A man without a father’s praise
  • Focus on what gives you meaning in life
  • MensLine Australia
  • Head to Health check
Check out our book review site: www.ronsreflections.com.au

  • Dad reading to young children.
  • Avoid this common parenting pitfall.
  • The Train of Life.
  • Male Carers need to be supported.
  • Men’s Healthy Guide by Greg Milan.
  • Great Life quotes.
  • Bank Password audit.
  • Dads4Kids website and more.
  • Main focus: Understanding maleness in boys and men
Click To Download