About Me

I am a 48-year-old father of four from Kotka. I live in the Kotkansaari district and I have three children living with me during every other week. My firstborn already lives independently.

I do gym, group exercises, ball games, swimming and jogging depending on my infatuation. I read articles, write blog posts and follow world news, phenomena and trends of the times.

I have a bachelor’s thesis from industrial management and I work as a Logistics manager in a very sweet food factory.

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Why do I write?

Year 2024 was an educative year for me. I started to feel a stronger desire to move towards a goal-oriented, planned and controlled lifestyle. A life where I can spontaneously do fun things but safely “enjoy” things in such a way that the balace is achieved. I had started to think about my relationship with my children, my partner, my family, my friends, exercise, alcohol and really everything that happens around me. Looking for happiness from the outside had turned out to be an endless path, from which I need to jump aside and build happiness internally making my own good choices and from the things and people that are already within my reach.

Maintaining my own blog site is not only learning new IT and social media skills for me, but growing confidence and mainly a form of self-therapy which increases awareness and understanding of the factors that impact my choices and thus my mental health. For readers, I hope that my posts will provoke thoughts about well-being and mental health drivers and I would like to hear those experiences.

Thought behind Miehenterveysseuraa.fi

Mental health is still a topic that is generally difficult to talk about. Not least for us middle-aged men. Lately it has been easy for me to tell my friends that I have been in therapy or that I have had a hard time. It hasn’t always been like this for me, but the feeling has changed in recent years above forty. I have also structured thoughts and the interdependencies of the areas of my life alone and in therapies. Finally, the idea matured: why not share my experiences publicly.

I decided to start a blog with the main purpose of sharing mental health-affecting experiences, insights and factors that either motivate to take care of yourself or make that effort disappear. My posts relate to good choices in life, parenthood, self confidence, effect of alcohol on various aspects of life, balance, self development goals and even my obsessions or ADHD suspicions. Mental health and balance also has a huge impact on performance and well-being at work.

I think that in the best case, sharing experiences can lower someone’s threshold to seek help or talk about their own challenges with a friend. Sometimes you´ll see lighter topics like sports, everyday fun activities or timely topics that are visible in the media! Rapid evolution of social media is one of my interests, as branding and availability of data strongly connects to working life.

There is a slight double meaning in the domain name miehenterveysseuraa.fi, verbatimly either “man’s-health-accompanied” or “man’s-health-follows”… Obviously, I write from a man’s perspective, and I believe that a man’s health follows good choices. It will most probably follow as result, if you have the courage to learn from others, live smartly and make those good choices one day at a time. On the blogsite, I also challenge all the readers to take an interest in mental health topic, “looking for healthy company” in the form of good community spirit, courageously commenting and sharing experiences to support my change.