The Broken Bridge

"My cousins and brothers became echoes of my father."

They learned by watching him—not loving, just surviving. I saw the cycle: emotional avoidance, cheating, ghosting, controlling women to feel powerful. The same wounds passed down like family heirlooms, wrapped in silence and labeled “manhood.” The bridge between the mother and father wound lived in them. But I walked away.

🧠 Narc Traits:
Emotional avoidance, ghosting, controlling behavior, denial of accountability.

🌺 Chakra Focus: Heart & Solar Plexus
🪞Journal Prompt:

• How did my male relatives treat the women in their lives?

• Where have I repeated or accepted this treatment?

• What does healthy masculinity look like to me?

✨ Affirmation:
“I break the bridge of pain and build a new legacy.”

🧬 Nervous System Impact:
Fight response, distrust in men, internalized abandonment.

🕯 Symbolic Quote:
“You cannot heal in the same place that cut you.”