Description
Reclaim Your Visibility
A Straightforward Guide for Black Fathers to Improve Themselves and Their Relationships with Their Children
Abstract
Through good, bad, ugly, or indifferent, you can improve as a father. Your mistakes do not define you. This self-help memoir serves as a straightforward guide for Black fathers who want to improve themselves and their relationships with their children. Carl Stokes intertwines his successes and failures as a Black father with 12 easy steps to help you overcome your struggles, fears and insecurities so that you can reclaim your visibility. Once you take this journey and implement these steps, your fatherhood status will be renewed, redefined, and re-established for the betterment of the Black father-child dynamic.
Suzanne Diffine –
Need a little love? Dr. Carl Stokes, Jr. will give it to you…tough love. In Reclaim Your Visibility, he guides Black fathers through twelve steps of self-discovery, empowerment, and redemption. And he is not afraid to call them out for shirking their responsibilities.
Carl is not some ivory tower intellectual spouting platitudes. He has his feet firmly planted on the ground. That’s because he is well acquainted with adversity. A young man with the deck stacked against him, Carl defied the odds. And by sharing his heart-wrenching stories, he hopes to help other men avoid the mistakes he made. In plain language, he describes the steps he followed to mend a broken relationship with his daughter, attract a good woman, and advance his career.
This is a must-read for every Black father. That said, every parent could benefit from the wisdom on these pages. Pick up a copy today and reclaim your visibility!
Melissa Archer –
Dr. Stokes this was the most real, honest and vulnerable self-portrayal read. Also, gave the roadmap for hope and essentially RECLAIMING YOUR VISIBILITY not only as a father, but as a man worthy of everything good and positive. I can’t wait to get this into the hands of as many women and men as I can. Thank you for using your story to help others heal!!
Vania –
I found myself listening to “Reclaim Your Visibility” audio book thinking, “Oh, no he didn’t!”… but I’m so glad he did. Dr. Carl Stokes wrote a relatable memoir that will help black men at any stage of fatherhood. Reclaim Your Visibility is a straight forward, tell it like it is, step-by-step guide to helping father’s and children rekindle their relationship with their children….as a mother, I learned somethings I could do better to strengthen my relationship with my children as well. This book has cultural relevance and needed advice for fathers to debunk any and every excuse they can conjure up. This guide is an answer for all black father’s to reclaim and maintain a genuine relationship with their children as well as find healing for themselves. Must have book for father’s everywhere!
Dr. Marie Cianca –
Dr. Carl Stokes’s book is a genuine, pragmatic, heartfelt narrative that serves as an excellent coaching series for black fathers — and also for other audiences in need of support and encouragement. Dr. Stokes helps bring his readers beyond self-imposed punishment for mistakes made and lifts them up to take action, move forward and “handle their business”. There are so many elements of the book that are engaging. First, the reader feels like he is having a down to earth conversation with Dr. Stokes. Second, the read gets a very practical action plan for a better and more fulfilling life ahead. Third, Dr. Stokes’s personal examples and life stories demonstrate that this turnaround can be done and done well! I would highly recommend this book to instill hope and jumpstart change in a way that reaps many, many benefits for individuals and their loved ones.