Episode Details

The father wound is quieter than the mother wound, and that’s exactly why so few women ever grieve it. In this episode I share my own father, one lunch in my whole life, no gifts, no advice, and complete silence when something terrible happened to me as a teenager.

We look at three fathers: the frightening one, the absent one, and the one who was in the house but unreachable. Then we go into the two things that actually move this wound;  grief, and discernment.

In this episode:

∙Why a father’s silence lands as no one is coming to defend me

∙Grieving the father you never got, and why that loss goes unrecognized

∙Why “daddy issues” puts the wound back on the daughter  and what to call it instead

∙How growing up without a safe man leaves you without a baseline, not without judgment

∙Why safe can feel boring and unsafe can feel electric

∙A guided GLOW practice and two journal prompts

Content note: this episode discusses childhood neglect, sexual assault, and the death of a parent.

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Next week: the practical half;  building the protector you didn’t have, telling safe from familiar, and what healthy masculine energy actually means.

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