How Not to Raise a ‘Toxic’ Male

Elaine Gilmartin
9 min readMar 8, 2022

Tips from the Trenches

by Elaine Gilmartin

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Being a parent, a mental health therapist, and an advocate to place kids from foster care into permanent adoptive homes has provided me insight that has been instrumental in each of my roles.

Although some of this is aspirational, none of the following is impossible;

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Elaine Gilmartin

A therapist by profession, a runner by passion, a writer by necessity.