If trauma can be passed down, so can healing. In Chapter 11, The Father, of my new book The Man the Moment Demands, I share transparently how my father’s harshness shaped me in ways I didn’t realize—programming me, subconsciously, to show up the same way for my own daughter. But she didn’t need that. She needed a father who made her feel like the apple of his eye, not the worm in the fruit. Recognizing my shortcomings wasn’t easy, but it was necessary. I chose to confront them, to fight to be th