Do you regularly find yourself feeling insecure and looking for reassurance? Do you experience big mood swings, but don’t know why? Are you especially responsible or immature for your age? Do you have a negative experience, word, thought, or voice in your head from your childhood that stills torments you? Are you estranged from any family members physically or emotionally?

Join Pat Morley for Part 2 of how the 9 major characteristics of men with childhood wounds are affecting you or your loved ones.

Reflection and Discussion

1. What is a self-doubt that makes you feel insecure?

2. Have you recently experienced a big mood swing? What were the circumstances?

3. Have you assumed the role of the responsible son or of a man especially immature for his age? Why do you think the role you identified describes you?

4. Is there a negative experience, word, thought, or voice in your head from your childhood that still torments?

5. From which of your parents and siblings are you alienated because of what happened in your childhood?

The following questions might apply to you or a loved one:

Do you struggle to believe that people really care about you?

Do others accuse you of being oversensitive or taking things too personally?

Is there something that routinely triggers your anger?

Is there a particular area of your life where you struggle to understand what normal, healthy male behavior looks like?

Join me, Pat Morley, and learn how 9 major characteristics of men with childhood wounds are affecting you or your loved ones. It’s going to be a great day!

Reflection and Discussion

1. To what extent do you struggle to believe that people really care about you? Give an

example.

2. Do others accuse you of being oversensitive or taking things too personally? Give an

example.

3. Is there something that routinely triggers your anger? How are you able to control it?

4. Is there a particular area of your life where you struggle to understand what normal,

healthy male behavior looks like? If there is, who is someone you could ask to take you

under his wing in that area and show you the ropes?

If your parents were never properly parented themselves, that put them at great risk to repeat

the cycle with you. And that puts you at risk of repeating the vicious cycle all over again.

If you or someone you love is caught in a cycle, can put a stop to your family’s

intergenerational dysfunction. But first you must become an emotionally, mentally, and

spiritually healthy person yourself. The starting point is to understand what every little boy or

girl needs as a child, and how parents create wounds.

Join me, Pat Morley, for a look at the 4 building blocks of a healthy home, and the 7 negative

parenting styles that make homes dysfunctional. In this series, I’m going to show you how

becoming a healthy man, husband, and father may be easier than you think.

Reflection and Discussion

1. How would you describe your relationship with your father, mother, or caregiver today?

For example:

cordial, strained, warm, estranged.

2. What was your childhood missing in the areas of love, structure, roots, or wings?

3. Which of the seven generalized descriptions of negative parenting are most relevant for

you (e.g., “my parents were passive”), and why?