My Father My Son is not just a book to be read, but a life to be experienced. Read it, then let it read you. You will never be the same.
Combating the effects of fatherlessness
Providing tools for spiritual and emotional wholeness
The experience of growing up without a father at home is becoming more common. And even those with fathers can feel abandoned and unloved. The author of The Dad I Never Knew: A War Orphan's Search for Inner Healing, Bruce Brodowski delves deeper into the challenges he experienced growing up without a dad in his new book, My Father My Son: Healing the Orphan Heart with the Father's Love. Tracing the historical and spiritual roots of the Orphan Heart condition, he explains how people can reverse negative attitudes and gain more meaningful relationships.
The author shows readers that they can build valuable life skills as they learn about:
• gaining intimacy and trust • not needing to be perfect to be loved • living without fear • their unconditional acceptance and worth
Looking at the problem from a broader perspective, the author also shows how the Orphan Heart condition can affect relationships, and churches. Pastors, church leaders, counselors or anyone trying to help a friend or family member will gain valuable tools for walking though the process of healing.
About the Author Bruce Brodowski is the author of The Dad I Never Knew: A War Orphan's Search for Inner Healing and the upcoming book My Father My Son: Healing the Orphan Heart with the Father's Love. He is the president of Carolina's Ecumenical Healing Ministries and an active healing minister.
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To learn more about My Father My Son: Healing the Orphan Heart with the Father's Love, to receive a review copy, or to book the author for an interview or speaking engagement, visit www.brucebrodowski.com or www.cehm.info Books are also available through Ingram, Amazon.com or your favorite bookstore.
Professional Reviews
Bruce Brodowski’s My Father My Son Explores the Heart of the Emotional Orphan
April Dellinger
• Charlotte Literature Examiner
Bruce Brodowski’s My Father My Son Explores the Heart of the Emotional Orphan
• November 23rd, 2010 2:30 am ET
No one is exempt from momentary feelings of loneliness, abandonment, emptiness, and misdirection in life, but in his writings Bruce Brodowski focuses on the margin of people who are burdened with these feelings at the soul level. Brodowski, whose familiarity with emotional fatherlessness arose after his own father was killed in World War II, writes about people living with “orphan hearts” in his second book My Father My Son. In Brodowski's profoundly personal work, he expresses the potentially precious, but commonly detrimental effect that that father/child relationship can have on a person, even into adulthood. Although the directed and assumed audience is one with its roots in Christianity, My Father My Son would be an appropriate read for any demographic. Because it contains personal reflections and viewpoints from War World War II orphans, as well as other historically relevant material, baby boomers, history buffs, and those simply interested in exploring psychological, sociological, and philosophical aspects of human life will take interest in and benefit from reading My Father My Son. Brodowski poses challenging questions and explores the problem of the orphan heart as he exposes the pains and frustrations that are unique to this group. Personal accounts from those who have been literally orphaned and those who have dealt with emotional abandonment add to the depth and sincerity of this book, but Brodowski does not simply leave the reader with a problem and no solution. Reasonable and challenging information is presented to readers to help them recognize signs of the orphan heart mindset and apply ways to combat it and set themselves on the path to healing. John 14:18, also known as The Father’s Blessing, is referenced in both of Brodowski’s books and sums up the thesis of his writing; it reads, “I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.” My Father My Son is a touching, gently straightforward book that will impact and inspire its readers to explore the inner workings of their hearts in order to find healing and fulfillment.
Bruce Brodowski is president of Carolinas Ecumenical Healing Ministries and also author of The Dad I Never Knew: A War Orphan’s Search for Inner Healing. He resides in Matthews, North Carolina with his wife. Both of his inspirational books are available for purchase at www.amazon.com. Available in UK and Europe. The Facebook page for Brodowski's ministry can be found by following the links: http://www.facebook.com/CarolinasEcumenicalHealingMinistries, http://www.brucebrodowski.com.
My Father, My Son
Genre: Faith, Introspection, Thought
Title: My Father, My Son
Author: Bruce Brodowski
Wars, whether major or minor, local or distant, create holes and gaps in lives for years for afterwards. Each individual must confront these as he or she sees fit. Some people descend into the depths of depression and struggle to achieve some sort of accommodation. Others, including Bruce Brodowski, seek for hope in the misery visited upon them through vicarious fate. This is a journey, a life that no one would ever seek, but occurs often in the lives of normal men.
Bruce Brodowski in this book has continued the journey begun in his previous book, “The Dad I Never Knew,” but this time he chooses to open up the details of his quest for peace and shares the experiences of others. It is this experience he calls the ‘orphan heart’ or ‘orphan spirit.’
To illustrate the orphan heart he uses the personal stories and experiences of other war orphans who grew up in the aftermath of the Second World War and orphans of more recent conflicts to show that his experience is not unique to his generation or cultural ethnicity. These are presented in the words of the orphan spirits themselves.
Even though this book is written with war orphans in mind, it is written in such a way as to make it applicable for anyone with an orphan heart through whatever circumstance. It is written in a style that lends itself quite handily to this purpose. The non-church going reader would also find comfort in the lines of this work. It does have quotes from the Bible as this is the grounding of the author’s faith, but they are offered in the honest spirit of comfort and encouragement. Faith, after all, should be a comfort and not a cudgel.
This book comes highly recommended for those seeking help to find answers and this reviewer knows of no one who isn’t.
Reviewer: John Helman, Allbooks Reviews. www.allbookreviews.com
Title: My Father, My Son
Author: Bruce Brodowski
Publisher: Carolinas Ecumenical Healing Ministries
Pages: 224
Sept. 2010
My Father My Son
Midwest Book Review
My Father, My Son
Bruce Brodowski
Carolinas Ecumenical Healing Ministries
13701 Port Patrick Lane, Matthews, NC 28103
9780982658116, $14.99, www.brucebrodowski.com
The need to bond is a strong one for many people. "My Father, My Son: Healing the Orphan Heart with the Father's Love" looks at need to love and be love, through the eyes and thoughts of Bruce Brodowski. Thoughtful, he looks at the value of the father I life and grants readers much to ponder and think about in order to enhance their faith in God. "My Father, My Son" is a spiritual guide with much to ponder, very highly recommended.
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