Courageous Love: From Survival to Sanctuary
Courageous Love:
From Survival to Sanctuary
Courageous Love: From Survival to Sanctuary
By Tyson Pete
Published February 10, 2026 | ISBN: 9781105672613
Category: Parenting & Families
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Some homes operate in crisis mode for so long that chaos begins to feel normal.
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Courageous Love: From Survival to Sanctuary is a grounded, systems-based guide for parents and families who are exhausted from living in constant emergency. Written especially for gay fathers while remaining fully accessible to all caregivers, this book confronts a hard truth: survival can quietly become a lifestyle.
And what we normalize, we reproduce.
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Drawing from trauma-informed science, nervous system regulation, attachment theory, masculinity studies, and lived experience, Tyson Pete moves beyond inspiration into infrastructure. This is not simply about understanding your wounds, it is about redesigning your environment.
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Inside these pages, you will discover how to:
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Recognize when hypervigilance has become your baseline
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Regulate your nervous system as a parent and leader
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Replace chaos with intentional daily rhythms
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Practice repair-based parenting instead of fear-based control
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Shift relational dynamics from reaction to steadiness
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Create sustainable calm inside real-world stress
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This book does not promise a life free of hardship.
It teaches you how to build a home that holds during it.
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Courageous Love addresses topics many parenting books avoid, including:
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Custody pressure and legal stress
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Church and religious trauma
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Internalized shame
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Intimacy and exhaustion within partnerships
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Anger and unresolved grief
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Breaking generational cycles
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The weight of legacy
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Sanctuary, as defined here, is not luxury. It is medicine.
It is the deliberate construction of an emotional ecosystem where safety is practiced, not performed. Where leadership is rooted in steadiness, not dominance. Where children are not raised in survival posture but in regulated presence.
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Tyson reframes masculinity as relational leadership and fatherhood as nervous system modeling. He challenges parents to move from coping mechanisms to cultivated systems from reactive parenting to intentional design.
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This is the shift:
From chaos to cadence.
From burnout to balance.
From survival to sanctuary.
Because a home is not defined by square footage.
It is defined by whether the body feels safe inside it.
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Publication Date: February 10, 2026
Language: English
ISBN: 9781105672613
Category: Parenting & Families
Copyright: All Rights Reserved – Standard Copyright License
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You survived what shaped you.
Now it is time to build something stronger than what you escaped.
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