The Phoenix Dad: From Broken Marriage to Breakthrough Life
When your marriage ends, your world burns down. But this is not the end of your story.
You know the exact moment everything changed. Maybe it was the words you'd been dreading, the half-empty rooms, or waking up in a life you no longer recognize. The fire consumed your marriage, your routines, your identity as a husband—everything you built is now rubble at your feet.
If you're standing in those ashes right now, barely breathing, wondering how you'll survive tomorrow—this book is for you.
The Support Divorced Fathers Desperately Need But Rarely Receive
Society expects you to be fine. Pay your child support. See your kids every other weekend. Move on. Nobody asks if you're drowning. Nobody acknowledges that you're losing your children, your home, your identity, and half your income all at once.
That ends here.
The Phoenix Dad is the comprehensive roadmap through divorce that speaks directly to what you're experiencing as a father and as a man navigating a system that often feels designed to work against you. This isn't toxic positivity or empty platitudes—it's honest, practical support for the hardest thing you've ever faced.
Your Journey from Survival to Transformation
Phase 1: Survival (The First 30 Days)
Immediate crisis management when you can barely function. Legal basics that protect you. Financial triage. Getting through today, then tomorrow, then the next day.
Phase 2: Stabilization (Months 2-3)
Co-parenting without losing your mind. Mental health recovery. Confronting the loneliness and identity loss. Building routines that anchor you when everything feels untethered.
Phase 3: Reinvention (Months 4+)
Financial rebuilding. Dating again when you're actually ready. Long-term co-parenting success. Becoming the man on the other side of this—not despite the fire, but because of it.
You Are the Phoenix
The ancient phoenix builds a nest, sets it ablaze, and is consumed by flames. From those ashes, it rises—stronger, more vibrant, more powerful than before. The fire doesn't destroy it. The fire transforms it.
You are that phoenix. Right now, you're in the fire, and it doesn't feel like transformation—it feels like annihilation. But here's what author Eliakim DuPont knows after witnessing countless divorced fathers' journeys:
The fire changes you, but it doesn't have to destroy you.
Some men stay in the ash pile, letting bitterness calcify around their hearts. Others rise. They grieve, they heal, they rebuild something new. They discover strength they didn't know they had. They become better fathers through crisis than they were in comfort.
What Your Kids Need Most
Your children don't need you to be perfect. They need you to be present and real. They're watching how you handle this fire—you're teaching them about resilience, masculinity, and what it means to keep going when life kicks you in the teeth.
Show them that strength isn't the absence of pain—it's the choice to keep going despite it. Show them that their father is human, flawed, and still worth their respect.
This Is Not the End of Your Story
The Phoenix Dad meets you in the fire and walks with you to the other side. With practical action items, checklists, and strategies for every stage of recovery, this book acknowledges that what you're going through is brutal—and that you have what it takes to rise from these ashes.
You are not alone. You are not forgotten. And you are going to make it through this fire.
The phoenix rises. So will you.
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When your marriage ends, your world burns down. But this is not the end of your story.
You know the exact moment everything changed. Maybe it was the words you'd been dreading, the half-empty rooms, or waking up in a life you no longer recognize. The fire consumed your marriage, your routines, your identity as a husband—everything you built is now rubble at your feet.
If you're standing in those ashes right now, barely breathing, wondering how you'll survive tomorrow—this book is for you.
The Support Divorced Fathers Desperately Need But Rarely Receive
Society expects you to be fine. Pay your child support. See your kids every other weekend. Move on. Nobody asks if you're drowning. Nobody acknowledges that you're losing your children, your home, your identity, and half your income all at once.
That ends here.
The Phoenix Dad is the comprehensive roadmap through divorce that speaks directly to what you're experiencing as a father and as a man navigating a system that often feels designed to work against you. This isn't toxic positivity or empty platitudes—it's honest, practical support for the hardest thing you've ever faced.
Your Journey from Survival to Transformation
Phase 1: Survival (The First 30 Days)
Immediate crisis management when you can barely function. Legal basics that protect you. Financial triage. Getting through today, then tomorrow, then the next day.
Phase 2: Stabilization (Months 2-3)
Co-parenting without losing your mind. Mental health recovery. Confronting the loneliness and identity loss. Building routines that anchor you when everything feels untethered.
Phase 3: Reinvention (Months 4+)
Financial rebuilding. Dating again when you're actually ready. Long-term co-parenting success. Becoming the man on the other side of this—not despite the fire, but because of it.
You Are the Phoenix
The ancient phoenix builds a nest, sets it ablaze, and is consumed by flames. From those ashes, it rises—stronger, more vibrant, more powerful than before. The fire doesn't destroy it. The fire transforms it.
You are that phoenix. Right now, you're in the fire, and it doesn't feel like transformation—it feels like annihilation. But here's what author Eliakim DuPont knows after witnessing countless divorced fathers' journeys:
The fire changes you, but it doesn't have to destroy you.
Some men stay in the ash pile, letting bitterness calcify around their hearts. Others rise. They grieve, they heal, they rebuild something new. They discover strength they didn't know they had. They become better fathers through crisis than they were in comfort.
What Your Kids Need Most
Your children don't need you to be perfect. They need you to be present and real. They're watching how you handle this fire—you're teaching them about resilience, masculinity, and what it means to keep going when life kicks you in the teeth.
Show them that strength isn't the absence of pain—it's the choice to keep going despite it. Show them that their father is human, flawed, and still worth their respect.
This Is Not the End of Your Story
The Phoenix Dad meets you in the fire and walks with you to the other side. With practical action items, checklists, and strategies for every stage of recovery, this book acknowledges that what you're going through is brutal—and that you have what it takes to rise from these ashes.
You are not alone. You are not forgotten. And you are going to make it through this fire.
The phoenix rises. So will you.
The Phoenix Dad: From Broken Marriage to Breakthrough Life
The Phoenix Dad: From Broken Marriage to Breakthrough Life
When your marriage ends, your world burns down. But this is not the end of your story.
You know the exact moment everything changed. Maybe it was the words you'd been dreading, the half-empty rooms, or waking up in a life you no longer recognize. The fire consumed your marriage, your routines, your identity as a husband—everything you built is now rubble at your feet.
If you're standing in those ashes right now, barely breathing, wondering how you'll survive tomorrow—this book is for you.
The Support Divorced Fathers Desperately Need But Rarely Receive
Society expects you to be fine. Pay your child support. See your kids every other weekend. Move on. Nobody asks if you're drowning. Nobody acknowledges that you're losing your children, your home, your identity, and half your income all at once.
That ends here.
The Phoenix Dad is the comprehensive roadmap through divorce that speaks directly to what you're experiencing as a father and as a man navigating a system that often feels designed to work against you. This isn't toxic positivity or empty platitudes—it's honest, practical support for the hardest thing you've ever faced.
Your Journey from Survival to Transformation
Phase 1: Survival (The First 30 Days)
Immediate crisis management when you can barely function. Legal basics that protect you. Financial triage. Getting through today, then tomorrow, then the next day.
Phase 2: Stabilization (Months 2-3)
Co-parenting without losing your mind. Mental health recovery. Confronting the loneliness and identity loss. Building routines that anchor you when everything feels untethered.
Phase 3: Reinvention (Months 4+)
Financial rebuilding. Dating again when you're actually ready. Long-term co-parenting success. Becoming the man on the other side of this—not despite the fire, but because of it.
You Are the Phoenix
The ancient phoenix builds a nest, sets it ablaze, and is consumed by flames. From those ashes, it rises—stronger, more vibrant, more powerful than before. The fire doesn't destroy it. The fire transforms it.
You are that phoenix. Right now, you're in the fire, and it doesn't feel like transformation—it feels like annihilation. But here's what author Eliakim DuPont knows after witnessing countless divorced fathers' journeys:
The fire changes you, but it doesn't have to destroy you.
Some men stay in the ash pile, letting bitterness calcify around their hearts. Others rise. They grieve, they heal, they rebuild something new. They discover strength they didn't know they had. They become better fathers through crisis than they were in comfort.
What Your Kids Need Most
Your children don't need you to be perfect. They need you to be present and real. They're watching how you handle this fire—you're teaching them about resilience, masculinity, and what it means to keep going when life kicks you in the teeth.
Show them that strength isn't the absence of pain—it's the choice to keep going despite it. Show them that their father is human, flawed, and still worth their respect.
This Is Not the End of Your Story
The Phoenix Dad meets you in the fire and walks with you to the other side. With practical action items, checklists, and strategies for every stage of recovery, this book acknowledges that what you're going through is brutal—and that you have what it takes to rise from these ashes.
You are not alone. You are not forgotten. And you are going to make it through this fire.
The phoenix rises. So will you.
When your marriage ends, your world burns down. But this is not the end of your story.
You know the exact moment everything changed. Maybe it was the words you'd been dreading, the half-empty rooms, or waking up in a life you no longer recognize. The fire consumed your marriage, your routines, your identity as a husband—everything you built is now rubble at your feet.
If you're standing in those ashes right now, barely breathing, wondering how you'll survive tomorrow—this book is for you.
The Support Divorced Fathers Desperately Need But Rarely Receive
Society expects you to be fine. Pay your child support. See your kids every other weekend. Move on. Nobody asks if you're drowning. Nobody acknowledges that you're losing your children, your home, your identity, and half your income all at once.
That ends here.
The Phoenix Dad is the comprehensive roadmap through divorce that speaks directly to what you're experiencing as a father and as a man navigating a system that often feels designed to work against you. This isn't toxic positivity or empty platitudes—it's honest, practical support for the hardest thing you've ever faced.
Your Journey from Survival to Transformation
Phase 1: Survival (The First 30 Days)
Immediate crisis management when you can barely function. Legal basics that protect you. Financial triage. Getting through today, then tomorrow, then the next day.
Phase 2: Stabilization (Months 2-3)
Co-parenting without losing your mind. Mental health recovery. Confronting the loneliness and identity loss. Building routines that anchor you when everything feels untethered.
Phase 3: Reinvention (Months 4+)
Financial rebuilding. Dating again when you're actually ready. Long-term co-parenting success. Becoming the man on the other side of this—not despite the fire, but because of it.
You Are the Phoenix
The ancient phoenix builds a nest, sets it ablaze, and is consumed by flames. From those ashes, it rises—stronger, more vibrant, more powerful than before. The fire doesn't destroy it. The fire transforms it.
You are that phoenix. Right now, you're in the fire, and it doesn't feel like transformation—it feels like annihilation. But here's what author Eliakim DuPont knows after witnessing countless divorced fathers' journeys:
The fire changes you, but it doesn't have to destroy you.
Some men stay in the ash pile, letting bitterness calcify around their hearts. Others rise. They grieve, they heal, they rebuild something new. They discover strength they didn't know they had. They become better fathers through crisis than they were in comfort.
What Your Kids Need Most
Your children don't need you to be perfect. They need you to be present and real. They're watching how you handle this fire—you're teaching them about resilience, masculinity, and what it means to keep going when life kicks you in the teeth.
Show them that strength isn't the absence of pain—it's the choice to keep going despite it. Show them that their father is human, flawed, and still worth their respect.
This Is Not the End of Your Story
The Phoenix Dad meets you in the fire and walks with you to the other side. With practical action items, checklists, and strategies for every stage of recovery, this book acknowledges that what you're going through is brutal—and that you have what it takes to rise from these ashes.
You are not alone. You are not forgotten. And you are going to make it through this fire.
The phoenix rises. So will you.
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940184925660 |
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| Publisher: | Eliakim DuPont |
| Publication date: | 10/25/2025 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 1 MB |
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