Sacred Lessons
I wrote Sacred Lessons to process the grief of losing my father. Along my healing journey, I realized that I had inherited the same patterns and beliefs that led to his unexpected passing. Through my story, I explore the challenges that I and many men face in connecting with themselves and others, offering tools for personal growth and ways to build meaningful and authentic relationships in our lives.
Sacred Lessons is a deeply moving and inspiring memoir for those seeking self-love and healing. Intensely personal, this memoir delves into the struggle men face in connecting with themselves and others, offering tools for personal growth and ways to build meaningful and authentic relationships in their lives.
Published by Regalo Press and distributed by Simon & Schuster, Sacred Lessons will be released on June 3, 2025. Through his story, Mike reflects on his father’s legacy as a beloved professor who impacted tens of thousands of students, yet struggled to teach his own son how to be emotionally vulnerable. Reflecting on the most important relationships in his life, Mike explores the difficulty in communicating with his father and loved ones–a byproduct of a toxic culture that prohibits men from truly expressing themselves, and purposely doesn’t teach men how to give and receive love. Through these stories, we see how trauma is passed on intergenerationally and how to find ways to stop the cycle of harm. In the end, both Mike and his father teach each other the greatest lesson of all: the sacredness of the love between a father and a son.
