The trauma of shame that we experience from not being appropriately bonded to, discipled by, and intentionally initiated into manhood by our biological fathers or a father figure—in one word, fatherlessness—can lead us into a discouraging cycle of feeling eternally inadequate, emotionally fatigued, annoyingly futile, socially obscure, and deep contempt for fatherhood, manhood, sonship, maleness, masculine relationships, and our Creator, Father God. It essentially fragments our heart and thus how we live and relate, especially to ourselves and other men.
This book offers a trauma-informed, narrative-focused, compassionate model to help bring care to the places in our story that lacked good fathering and to move the needle in our lives from fatherless to becoming a fatherfull man (a restored, redeemed, transformed, courageous, and life-giving presence in the world) on mission with God.
The trauma of shame that we experience from not being appropriately bonded to, discipled by, and intentionally initiated into manhood by our biological fathers or a father figure—in one word, fatherlessness—can lead us into a discouraging cycle of feeling eternally inadequate, emotionally fatigued, annoyingly futile, socially obscure, and deep contempt for fatherhood, manhood, sonship, maleness, masculine relationships, and our Creator, Father God. It essentially fragments our heart and thus how we live and relate, especially to ourselves and other men.
This book offers a trauma-informed, narrative-focused, compassionate model to help bring care to the places in our story that lacked good fathering and to move the needle in our lives from fatherless to becoming a fatherfull man (a restored, redeemed, transformed, courageous, and life-giving presence in the world) on mission with God.