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The Bright Side Of Brokenness
Paperback
Biographies GeneralChristian LivingSelf-Help
Publisher Price: $16.99
Publisher: Dogood Publishing
Published: Mar 31 2026
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He was two years old the first time he saw his mother's blood.
Three when he watched his father press a gun to her temple.
A teenager watching her go through detox ... again.
Some storms don't announce themselves. They're just the weather of your childhood. And if you grew up inside one, you already know what it costs - the quiet guilt underneath everything, the weight you've been carrying so long you forgot it wasn't normal, the story you've been editing and minimizing and burying because the true version feels like too much to ask of anyone.
The Bright Side of Brokenness is not a book about what happened to Larry Kooyman. It's a book about what he chose to do with it ... and why your story matters just as much as his.
Your pain may not be for you.
It may be for the person sitting alone right now with something they've never said out loud. The one who has never heard another person name the exact thing they've been carrying in the dark. Pain sees pain in a way that nothing else can. When someone who has actually stood in that hallway looks you in the eyes and says I know. I've been there ... isolation breaks. Not slowly. Immediately.
That is what this book is.
In eleven honest, unflinching chapters, Larry walks through the defining moments of a childhood shaped by domestic violence, addiction, manipulation, and loss - not to expose the people in his story, but to expose the patterns. Because patterns are what get passed down. And patterns are what can be interrupted.
No sanitized stories. No silver linings that dismiss the pain. Just the hard-won, scar-tested truth that what broke you has also built you ... and what built you can now build someone else.
This book is for the person still carrying a childhood they didn't choose. For the parent determined to give their kids something different. For the leader who knows you cannot build people from the outside in without first doing the work on the inside. For anyone who has ever wondered if their pain had a purpose beyond just surviving it.
No one should walk alone through what you've walked through. And somewhere, someone is standing exactly where you once stood - praying that someone who has been there would find the courage to say so.
This book is that courage, put on paper.
The cycle stops when someone decides. This book is about deciding. And when you finish it ... you'll understand why your story was never just yours to keep.
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