Cycle Breakers Forge a New Path Breaking family cycles isn't for the faint-hearted. It takes courage to recognise a pattern that you don't want to repeat and know it stops with you. It takes strength to learn self-regulation when little was modelled to you as a child. We have to take the time to learn a new way. To look around and find role models who are doing it differently. Then we need to practice the new path, to embed it in our lives.