Tom Golden is well known for his first book Swallowed by a Snake: The Gift of the Masculine Side of Healing which opened the conversation about men and emotions. The book was acclaimed by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Hope Edelman and many others. Tom enjoys giving workshops in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia, having been named the 1999 International Grief Educator by the Australian Centre for Grief Education. Drawing on thirty years of practical, hands-on clinical experience, he brings a gentle sense of humor and a gift for storytelling to both his workshops and his writing. His work and his web site webhealing have been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and U.S. News and World Report, as well as on CNN, CBS Evening News, ESPN and the NFL Channel. He served as the Vice Chair of the Maryland Commission for Men's Health. Golden has a private practice in Gaithersburg MD and does online consults. He runs a blog menaregood as well as a youtube and Patreon site by the same name.