Welcome to The Manifest
I’m Tom Gentry.
I am an internationally certified alcohol and drug counselor (ICADC), with a small business where I provide private coaching and consultation services for people affected by addiction and related issues. I offer recovery coaching for individuals, family coaching for people with loved ones who suffer from substance use disorders, and transitional coaching for people amid significant life changes.
I’m writing a book to present a new paradigm for manhood – one that supports women as much as it empowers men; one that compels men to reclaim their hearts in a culture that demands they abandon themselves emotionally from the time they are little boys.
Think of this publication as a ship.
I’m like Odysseus, trying to get back to my own version of Ithaca. Subscribers sail with me, ticketed passengers whose names are documented on the vessel’s manifest. We’re here together, setting off toward a better place.
I’ve been writing most of my life, and cut my teeth in journalism. In my late teens and 20’s I covered high school sports for a couple daily newspapers, most notably, The Palm Beach Post. I started publishing on Substack in earnest early in 2023.
My commitment to you, if you subscribe or follow me here, is that I will show up. I will give of myself. Whatever I publish here will be a true and genuine reflection of me. Whatever you read or listen to here, my purpose will be two-fold – to, in some small way, make your life a little better, and, in doing so, to know myself better.
I have some stories I want to tell, but not to just anyone. I can tell them here and have an idea whose eyes my words appear before.
I love that on this platform is that I can do whatever I want. I can write about whatever I want. I can write about the people and the things I love. I can write about what troubles me in this world. I can share my thoughts and experience by writing about some lessons I’ve learned in life.
Whatever brings you here ‒ thank you for coming. I hope you stay, and together, we become something bigger and better than we could be alone.
Best,
P.S.
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