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with criticism . They teased you , mocked you , and regularly made jokes at your expense . You felt like you were a disappointment — like they were sorry you were born .
You didn ’ t know how to make them happy . When you did something that made them unhappy , they would exhale exaggerated sighs to show their disapproval or even disgust . Everything you did was questioned or called into doubt , and you never felt like you had done enough .
1 . Arthur C . Brooks , From Strength to Strength ( New York : Portfolio , 2022 ), 49 .
Adapted from Broken Boy to Mended Man : A Positive Plan to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Break the Cycle by Patrick Morley . Copyright © ( 2024 ). Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers , a Division of Tyndale House Ministries . All rights reserved .
You are part of the fraternal order of broken boys because your parents made mistakes ( or failed altogether ). You can put a stop to your family ’ s intergenerational dysfunction , but first you must become an emotionally , mentally , and spiritually healthy person yourself . That includes dealing with your own childhood wounds so you don ’ t repeat the cycle and pass on those wounds to your own children .
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Patrick Morley PhD , is founder of Man in the Mirror , a global ministry impacting thousands of churches and millions of men . Motivated by his own search for meaning and purpose , he started a Bible study in a bar with a handful of guys in 1986 — a study that now reaches thousands of men around the world every week at patrickmorley . com / mimbiblestudy . He has written 23 books , including The Man in the Mirror , named one of the 100 most influential Christian books of the twentieth century . Morley ’ s newest book , From Broken Boy to Mended Man , will release on March 19 , 2024 from Tyndale House Publishers . 30