How did Resilient Dad start? Here’s my story.

Resilient Dad is the end result of a father who decided to help good fathers like you become the kind of role model you needed when you were a boy.

After losing my own father to divorce and mental illness and growing up without a solid father figure, I began to see history repeat itself when I needed to be the father my son needed instead of turning out exactly how my father did for me.

It started when I couldn’t see my son and I went numb from depression. And as it hit me that all the effort I went through with the courts and mediation just ended with me fighting more seemingly impossible battles to see my son, I thought to myself, “Would he be better off without me?”

I was thinking this and considering jumping off the rooftop of my apartment complex when I suddenly saw a father and son walking home from school, both smiling and talking with each other like nothing else mattered. In that moment, I knew that the answer to my question was “No.” 

And that was when I decided to step back from the edge of the rooftop, step back from my own mental edge, and make a change.

It wasn’t instant, but I took back my power and stopped being so reactive to everything the courts could throw at me. I stopped letting the chaos I had to deal with bleed over into my daily life, and I started focusing on what mattered most to me: my relationship with my son. And as I fought for every bloody inch toward my goal of just letting me see my son again, I realized that I was becoming someone completely different.

I was following a process that other dads can use to become the kind of dads they can be.

Now, I’ve become the kind of man who I can be proud of when I look in the mirror and be there for my son in ways that my father couldn’t.

And now, with Resilient Dad, you can tap into the same process and become the awesome dad who walks your children home from school, truly earns the title of provider when you can be the shoulder your family can cry on and the leader they can look at with their heads held high, and loving who you see when you look into the mirror.

Let’s take the first step, and become the superhero role model that your children deserve.