As a licensed professional counselor and dad of three, Chris Bruno is acutely aware of how childhood trauma can impact your fatherhood approach. In this conversation, Chris describes the importance of processing your experiences with others, finding healing from the past, and becoming deeply rooted in brotherhood as you raise your kids.

Key Takeaways

• You became the man you are today because of the guidance or lack thereof from the men who came before you.
• Exploring your own story means confronting the areas you've walled off within yourself and processing your experiences with others.
• We are the best fathers when we have brothers alongside us.
• Trauma continues to pass through generations until someone has the courage to feel it.

Chris Bruno

Chris Bruno is an author, licensed professional counselor, founder of ReStory, and CEO of Restoration Project. He is passionate about the intersection of transformation and adventure. Chris and his wife, Beth, have three young adult children.

Key Quotes

• "We are the best father when we have our best brothers with us. We need those guys. Those are guys in my life and we need our brothers. And also we need someone else who's on the outside who's got some training, is a professional in some ways to come along side to create a safe space for a child to unfold."
• "We are heaps of undigested experience. When you have indigestion, there's something unwell about your body. So if there's undigested experience, there's something unwell about your soul and we need someone to come alongside us and to be with us and partner with us and talk through those things with us to digest the experience so that in that moment, we can make meaning in a way that won't be a traumatic meaning. It won't be one of those collapsed vows or walled off moments in life."

Links from Today's Conversation

• Man Maker Project: A Father's Guide to Initiating His Son to Manhood by Chris Bruno
• Sage: A Man's Guide Into His Second Passage by Chris Bruno
• Brotherhood Primer: A Man's Guide To Turning Buddies Into Brothers by Chris Bruno
• Restoration Project
• ReStory Counseling
• Chris Bruno's TEDx Talk: ReStory: How to Live Your Truest Story
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