Los Angeles, CA – Award-winning author, certified life coach, and nonprofit founder Tyson Pete announces the release of his highly anticipated new book, Courageous Love: From Survival to Sanctuary, a systems-based guide designed to help families move from chronic stress and emotional emergency into sustainable safety and leadership at home.
At a time when parental burnout, mental health strain, and social polarization dominate national conversation, Courageous Love reframes the issue at its core: survival has become a lifestyle. The book argues that many families are not failing due to lack of love or effort, but because constant readiness, stress, and pressure have quietly replaced stability and rhythm.
Rather than offering surface-level inspiration, Pete delivers a structured approach rooted in trauma-informed science, nervous system regulation, attachment theory, masculinity studies, and lived experience. The book provides practical frameworks for building homes that function as stabilizing environments rather than stress amplifiers.
Why This Matters Nationally
Across the United States, families are reporting unprecedented levels of stress. According to the U.S. Surgeon General’s 2023 advisory on parental mental health, parents are experiencing high levels of anxiety, burnout, and isolation. Simultaneously, conversations around masculinity, fatherhood, and emotional literacy are gaining national urgency.
Courageous Love enters this national moment with a specific focus: redefining leadership inside the home.
The book challenges cultural narratives that equate strength with endurance and control. Instead, Pete reframes leadership as steadiness, regulation, and repair. This shift directly connects to broader conversations about mental health, generational trauma, LGBTQ+ family legitimacy, and the need for emotionally competent parenting models.
In a climate where many families are navigating:
- Economic instability
- Custody disputes and court pressures
- Religious trauma and identity-based harm
- Burnout culture
- Cultural scrutiny of LGBTQ+ parents
Courageous Love positions sanctuary not as luxury, but as medicine and civic responsibility.
Who This Impacts
The primary audience includes:
- Gay fathers raising children under heightened scrutiny
- Parents recovering from burnout, trauma, or chronic stress
- Families navigating grief, divorce, or legal pressure
- Men seeking healthier models of masculinity
- Caregivers ready to interrupt generational cycles of survival
While centered in the lived experiences of gay fathers, the book speaks broadly to all families seeking stability without perfection.
A Larger Ecosystem: The Courageous Love Collective
Courageous Love: From Survival to Sanctuary is part of a growing ecosystem under the Courageous Love Collective, which includes:
- The Courageous Love book series
- The Courageous Love Collective Magazine
- Coaching programs and family frameworks
- Community-based initiatives through P.R.O.U.D. Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit supporting gay fathers and families
Together, these platforms create an integrated movement focused on healing, leadership, and generational legacy. The ecosystem connects literature, media, nonprofit advocacy, and educational programming into a unified framework designed to move families from coping to cultivating.
The book’s release marks a significant expansion of this ecosystem, reinforcing Pete’s mission to normalize sanctuary as a leadership practice across families nationwide.
A Family Legacy of Healing: Ciera Phillips’ Debut Poetry Release
In a powerful extension of generational healing within the same family lineage, Pete’s cousin, Ciera Phillips, will release her debut poetry collection Scars Have Names on February 26, 2026.
While Courageous Love focuses on structured sanctuary within family systems, Scars Have Names offers an intimate, reflective exploration of personal and generational healing through poetry.
Phillips’ collection is written for women navigating personal transformation and emotional restoration. Her primary audience includes:
- Women processing emotional, spiritual, or generational pain who seek language that validates their experiences and supports healing
- Women undergoing life transitions, identity shifts, or periods of rebuilding
- Women reclaiming their voice, boundaries, and sense of self
- Readers drawn to themes of legacy, ancestry, resilience, and rebirth
- Individuals seeking affirmation and hope as they move from pain toward clarity and confidence
Together, these two works form a broader cultural contribution: one addressing structured leadership and family systems, the other addressing interior restoration and voice reclamation.
Urgency and Cultural Relevance
As conversations around mental health, masculinity, generational trauma, and LGBTQ+ family equity continue to evolve, Courageous Love provides a timely intervention.
Rather than positioning healing as private self-work, Pete frames it as a national leadership issue. Families form the foundation of civic culture. When homes operate in survival mode, institutions reflect that instability. When homes cultivate sanctuary, generational change becomes possible.
In an era marked by burnout, polarization, and emotional exhaustion, Courageous Love asks a direct question: What would change if safety, not urgency, became the organizing principle of family life?
About Tyson Pete
Tyson Pete is an award-winning author and recipient of the 2025 Regal Summit Book Award for Best Parenting Book. He is a certified life coach and founder of P.R.O.U.D. Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering gay fathers and families through education, advocacy, and leadership development.
Through the Courageous Love Collective, Pete integrates publishing, media, coaching, and nonprofit initiatives into a unified ecosystem focused on generational healing and sustainable leadership.
Courageous Love: From Survival to Sanctuary
Release Date: February 13, 2026
Available at www.tysonpete.com and major retailers
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