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Healing Father Wounds: Understanding and Navigating the Journey aka Daddy issues and what that really means for you!

July 04, 2024 Kirsty Harris
Healing Father Wounds: Understanding and Navigating the Journey aka Daddy issues and what that really means for you!
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Healing Father Wounds: Understanding and Navigating the Journey aka Daddy issues and what that really means for you!
Jul 04, 2024
Kirsty Harris

Ever felt the lingering pain of not having a supportive father figure? Join me, Kirsty Harris, on a poignant exploration of father wounds and their deep impact on our relationships and mental health. We'll uncover how the presence or absence of a father shapes our relationship patterns, particularly in romantic contexts. Learn about the profound effects of feelings of abandonment, emotional unavailability, and psychological challenges rooted in attachment theory and inner child healing. Discover the importance of good male role models for children lacking a father figure and recognize the lasting emotional imprints left by our fathers.

Healing father wounds is a complex journey, often involving deeply entrenched emotional scars left by controlling or distant fathers. We'll discuss the struggles of breaking free from rigid parental rules and the consequences of distant relationships, often stemming from unresolved traumas. Understanding trauma layers—genetic, generational, gestational, and accumulative—is key to healing. By recognizing signs of father wounds like overcompensating in relationships and the fear of rejection, we can embrace these wounds to lead more authentic and fulfilling lives.

Navigating the intricate process of healing requires self-compassion, setting boundaries, and cultivating self-awareness. We'll explore various methods such as therapy, counseling, and coaching, emphasizing the importance of building a support system, engaging in mindfulness, and understanding our father's perspective for empathy and forgiveness. Creating your own narrative and focusing on your strengths and accomplishments can guide you towards healing and moving forward. Stay until the end for heartfelt closing remarks and a call to action, providing you with the encouragement to continue your transformative journey.

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Ever felt the lingering pain of not having a supportive father figure? Join me, Kirsty Harris, on a poignant exploration of father wounds and their deep impact on our relationships and mental health. We'll uncover how the presence or absence of a father shapes our relationship patterns, particularly in romantic contexts. Learn about the profound effects of feelings of abandonment, emotional unavailability, and psychological challenges rooted in attachment theory and inner child healing. Discover the importance of good male role models for children lacking a father figure and recognize the lasting emotional imprints left by our fathers.

Healing father wounds is a complex journey, often involving deeply entrenched emotional scars left by controlling or distant fathers. We'll discuss the struggles of breaking free from rigid parental rules and the consequences of distant relationships, often stemming from unresolved traumas. Understanding trauma layers—genetic, generational, gestational, and accumulative—is key to healing. By recognizing signs of father wounds like overcompensating in relationships and the fear of rejection, we can embrace these wounds to lead more authentic and fulfilling lives.

Navigating the intricate process of healing requires self-compassion, setting boundaries, and cultivating self-awareness. We'll explore various methods such as therapy, counseling, and coaching, emphasizing the importance of building a support system, engaging in mindfulness, and understanding our father's perspective for empathy and forgiveness. Creating your own narrative and focusing on your strengths and accomplishments can guide you towards healing and moving forward. Stay until the end for heartfelt closing remarks and a call to action, providing you with the encouragement to continue your transformative journey.

Support the Show.

Thank you for supporting the Podcast, it means so so much to me.

Lets stay in touch!

Instagram:
Kirsty Harris | Spiritual Transformation Coach & Healer (@iamcoachkirsty) • Instagram photos and videos

Website:
I Am Coach Kirsty

LinkedIn:
Kirsty Harris | LinkedIn

I would love to hear from you, if you have any thoughts or comments about the podcast, please send an email to iamcoachkirsty@gmail.com

Lots of love,
Kirsty

Speaker 1:

Hello and welcome to Find your Inner Glow. Hosted by me, kirsty Harris, I am a manifestation coach and an intuitive healer. I am here to talk to you all about mind, body and soul and how we can find your inner glow together. So kick back, grab a cuppa and let's get into it. Hi everyone, and welcome to the podcast.

Speaker 1:

Today we are diving into father wounds, and if you listened to mother wounds last week, we are going through the same pattern, I guess, or layout of the podcast as we did for mother wounds. So you will notice an overlap in terms of mother and father wounds, but it's important to know the cause of each symptom or trauma or whatever. Now, this will apply to all dads the supportive ones, the challenging ones, the ones we don't understand, the ones who were our male primary caregiver. So, if you were adopted, if you're placed in care, but you had a strong male role model in your life, this is who this applies to. And, equally, if you had a dad that wasn't in your life, that can lead to abandonment issues, but we'll talk more about that later. So, whether your father was in your life or not, it will leave a lasting imprint on your relationship template. Now, if you're a woman and you're seeking a man. Well, if you don't have a solid relationship template with a man, then it's going to be really hard for you to find a really healthy and stable relationship because you don't know what that feels like, and that's okay. It's not something that is is a problem. It's something that you can learn and adapt and change. And what you'll find is that when you do enter a healthy, stable relationship with a man, it can really trigger you and be like oh my God, I'm not sure if I'm worthy of this or if I'm ready for this. Oh my God, is this what a real relationship feels like? Where it isn't a sense of abandonment, where I'm constantly feeling insecure, where there's lots of anxiety. It can feel a really unsettled place to be.

Speaker 1:

Um, so with father wounds, they do massively impact our relationships and secretly and secretly and what am I even trying to say? And alternatively, with mother wounds, if you're a man seeking a woman, then it can also impact on our relationship with our mother, but also with our partners. Okay, that's what I'm trying to say is like it's that mirror image. Okay, our primary caregivers give us the templates for relationships for other people in our lives, especially romantic relationships. So what are father wounds?

Speaker 1:

This basically refers to emotional, psychological or relational challenges that individuals may experience as a result of difficulties or issues in their relationship with their fathers. Okay, and these can manifest in all different ways, like we just talked about relationship templates, but it can also really impact a person's mental well-being, um, friendships, just so many different layers of us can be affected by this one relationship in our life, which, for me, is always like mind-blowing. It just shows how important that primary caregiver is. And I will always say to like maybe single parents about, maybe they have daughters or sons and their dad is absent from their life, then support them by having good male role models around them. So if that's like an, a grandfather, an uncle or whatever, having those good male role models and spending a significant amount of time with them will be super, super beneficial, okay, so the concept of father wounds is not just like a spiritual thing, it's a psychoanalytic and psychodynamic dynamic theory. Okay, so this is based in attachment theory. It isn't me just going who. This has left an energetic print on you, woo. No, it's basically rooted in psychology, okay, and in psychological development. This is obviously linked to inner child healing and you cannot focus on inner child healing without noticing the impact of our parents or caregivers. That's ultimately, we can do our inner child and give that inner child what we need right now and what is really, really important. But we can't deny the role that our parents had in creating that version of that child.

Speaker 1:

And when we are a child, we are a vulnerable, soft, emotional being that will perceive life so differently to an adult who's a very logical minded person. So, for example, like one of the key examples is basically like if your dad works all the time, as a five year old you may not understand he was working really, really hard to provide for the family. You might just feel abandoned emotionally and physically and then as an adult you will look back and go oh hey, like I know why dad did that. He worked so hard for our family so we could have everything we wanted. But as a emotional child, you still hold that abandonment within you. So even if your dad is like an absolute saint, but did work away a lot, did do this, did do that, which left you as a child feeling emotionally abandoned, then that wound still lies within, even if your dad is amazing to you and you have a great relationship. That's the imprint it has, because that's the emotions that you felt at that time of your life. And again, this is what happens with like trauma or with like negative experiences. It can leave an imprint on us emotionally which, if we go on to ignore it, it can manifest in different ways in our life, like I just said.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so let's have a little talk about what are the common factors that contribute to father wounds. We've already touched on this one, but it's abandonment, so neglect or abandonment. So, basically, if there was a lack of emotional, mental, physical presence from your father during critical stages so I would say anything between like zero and eight, um, or any sort of like life moments where you've really needed to have a strong male role model, this can lead to feelings of abandonment or neglect. Okay, you may have a father who, like, is emotionally unavailable, they he may not be able to tap into his emotions and deal with his own emotional struggles. So then he comes across being very cold, very disciplinarian, and may leave you feeling unsupported or unloved in certain times. Like you may go to him with a problem and he might just be like, pull yourself together, get together, without any like empathy because he's just not able to do that. Get together without any like empathy because he's just not able to do that. And also, don't forget men and women are totally different. Our brains are different. Biologically we are different. So a man knows how to father a son, but a man doesn't necessarily know how to father a soft, emotional, highly sensitive little girl, because it's so different. So he may have had a lack of emotional and availability, but he might have also lacked skill in being able to do that and to be able to communicate and understand what it's like for a girl and how to navigate her emotions and to make her feel supported and loved and feel safe.

Speaker 1:

Okay, okay, you may have another factor which would be over control or distance. So you may get father wounds as a result of an overly controlling dad. So if you have an overly controlling parent, you will feel so scared of stepping outside those rules that are being set for you. Even as an adult, I had quite a strict mom and when it came to like stepping outside of those rules, I had to like reparent myself and that's absolutely fine. But it just can cause a wound within us where we are too afraid to maybe go after the dreams that we want, chase the things that we want, take calculated risks, because we've always had these very dense and overly controlling rules put on us. Another factor could be distance. So you may have a very distant relationship with your father where you crave the connection and I want to say intimacy, but not in a sexual way like that, that closeness, that connection with your father, but because of like location or his own stuff or his own wounds or whatever, this may hinder healthy boundaries and then that means that there's like a big distance and a big disconnect from from both of you.

Speaker 1:

And similarly, when we talked about this in mother wounds, dad may have unresolved trauma. It was dad in the army. Did dad work in a factory? Did dad experience anything in his life that could have been traumatic that caused, or maybe he has mental health issues, maybe he's dealing with addiction. There's all of these different things that men go on with where, like they are constantly stigmatized to not talk man up, don't talk about your feelings. So with that, then we have a father who may be struggling with mental health. We may have a father that's not able to provide a nutrient and stable environment for his child. He may not be able to express himself effectively, he may not be able to regulate his emotions because they overspill anytime. A little thing happens because he's unable to cope okay. So any unmet emotional needs as well for him as a child, will also come out.

Speaker 1:

I read somewhere a very long time ago that when you have children of your own, your own trauma and experiences will surface at the level of your child. So say, for example, something happened to you when you were five. When your child reaches five, subconsciously this sort of like fear or, um, worry or experience may come back to the surface because it's not being dealt with. Okay. So if a child has a very like lots of emotional needs, such as validation, affection, understanding, and this isn't met by the father, it can result in deep-seated emotional wounds. Okay. So this it causes like so many different things within all layers of us, in our spiritual, mental, emotional and physical.

Speaker 1:

So so, yeah, and when we talk about genetic blueprints, we are talking about that. So I always work off a different couple of layers of trauma. So one is genetic, one is generational, one is gestational, which is when you're in the womb, and then accumulative. Those are probably the four I'm working on past life, trauma at the moment and understanding that more. But these are the first sort of four layers I always look at with any client that I'm working with in a coaching session, because this is absolutely critical to know what's been passed down genetically, what's been passed down generationally. What happened to you in the womb? Was there any problems with mum's health whilst you were in the womb? And then accumulative trauma. Have there been significant things that have happened throughout your life that need support? Okay, so with your genetic blueprint from your father, it will hand down a blueprint of their parenting to you.

Speaker 1:

So this is your choice to heal. Okay, this is your choice to go. I'm not going to do this again. I'm going to heal that masculine side of me. I'm gonna embrace the things that I should lock off from myself, like being assertive, being confident, ambitious, authentic and so much more, because you have to stick within these narrow rules. You don't have to do that anymore. You can embrace it. You can just really, really embrace it. So this is where I feel like, when you start doing your healing journey, you don't only heal this version of you. You heal for the generations that follow you.

Speaker 1:

So for me, healing is always a no-brainer and that's why, like, I had my own coach. This is why I've had my own therapy, my own counselling, and that has equipped me to support people like you who want to do the healing, who want to change, who want to transform their lives and to live a happier life. That's why, because when you've been through it yourself, you have such a great deep understanding of what it's like to feel. The feels Like I've got father wounds, I've got mother wounds we all do and I just really needed to address it. And when I did, I just had this sense of empowerment and it was just absolutely like, incredible, incredible. And to be in control of your own healing journey. It's not for the faint-hearted, don't get me wrong, but it's absolutely sensational when you have these breakthroughs and you start to release burdens and you start to just really feel empowered and embracing your. Just embracing. Embracing your, your life for the way that it should be and being your authentic self, without shame, judgment or anything, is so, so beautiful, okay, anyway, I could talk about that all day long, but let's get into signs of father wounds.

Speaker 1:

So, feeling the pressure to adhere to strict expectations of manhood If you're, if you're a guy, you may overcompensate in relationships to gain approval Okay, you're. You're may overcompensate in relationships to gain approval okay, you're constantly will be chasing validation in relationships because you didn't get it from your father. You may never step into your full power and into your full potential because of fear of rejection or disapproval. Why? Because we're not living in alignment with ourselves. We're not living in our authentic self. Again, we are chasing that approval.

Speaker 1:

You may have a vague sense that something is lacking or something is wrong with you, and that isn't true at all. There's nothing wrong with you feeling pressure to live out unfulfilled dreams of your father, even if it means not being true to you. Like, for example, there's a lot of things that I see when I work in my coaching and I often do see people trying to like live the lives of their mother or live the lives of their father because they have like this, this, like obligatory feeling that they need to be able to do that, and I'm like no, you don't. You don't owe your parents anything. They brought you into the world and they've supported you to this point and that is beautiful and you give thanks for that. But you don't have to live these dreams that are not your own to repay your parents. That's not what you need to do.

Speaker 1:

You may even get resentment and bitterness at your own children. You may not be able to communicate with them. You may hold your own trauma from your father wound and you might start just the narrative that all men are shit, and especially if the dad of your children is not showing up in the way that you really want, this further confirms that all men are trash. Okay, and I hear this all the time all men are shit. Well, if you have that attitude, guess what you're going to attract. Okay, you need to start thinking about men who are good in your life. Or even if you just see strangers and you see them doing good acts with their children to show you that good men are out there or will do good things without something in return, okay, there are men out there like that. There is an abundance of good men, and I want you to ask yourself what do you truly think about men? Do you really think that there's an abundance of good men out there? And if you don't look at the men that you've been attracting, are they good men? And I'm just gonna leave you with that. I'm gonna let you call you out on your own shit.

Speaker 1:

On that one, you may be unconsciously waiting for your father's permission or approval on your life choices. You might kind of want to go. I really want to do this. I want to make sure dad signs off on this first, which could be a conscious or subconscious behavior, okay, so be very mindful of that, especially if you had a very strict dad.

Speaker 1:

Okay, you may have unrealistic expectations in relationship and feel like you need to be achieving all the time, like your worth is based in achievement. That's a very masculine thing. Our achievement is is a masculine thing. You know, when we're doing and we're being relentless, we are basically being in our masculine energy and that can show a masculine wound in us. And if we've got unrealistic expectation in relationships, we need to figure out what love is. What does love mean for us? How does love feel? Okay, what do we want from our partner? How do we want them to to make us feel?

Speaker 1:

There are so many layers within this, which again is covered in my coaching or when you want to sign up to the manifestation hub, we go through elements of this. If you are feeling unsafe, you will not be vulnerable. You will never show your emotions. You will probably create a very masculine armor to keep everybody out and you will just be constantly in your masculine energy, doing, pushing forward. Doing pushing forward, which at times is absolutely needed, but it has to come from a right, the right place. So if it's because you feel, say, unsafe and unsecure, you need to work on ways that will make you feel safe and secure again and again. That comes back to reparenting yourself. That comes back to cultivating feelings of safety and protection.

Speaker 1:

Okay, another sign weak boundaries, an unclear sense of self or low self-worth. Oh, I hate talking about that. I don't hate it, but you know, when you say out loud, you're like, oh, icky, yeah, some of these signs are pretty icky, um, but when you have weak boundaries, you allow people to walk all over you. When you have an unclear sense of self, any manifestations you have will be hit or miss. Any feelings of low self-worth will mean that you will end up in relationships with guys who will reaffirm this for you or people who reaffirm this for you. So, yes, this again another sign we have an inability to practice foundational self-care and ask and receive support. Okay, if you're not looking after yourself, you need to, because you are the most important person in this world and ask and receive support.

Speaker 1:

Okay, when we don't have that really clear masculine template in our life, we will overcompensate massively and we will not ask for support, we will not receive support, we constantly will push back at it and I think that's really, really hard. When I'm like talking to friends, I'm like you need to be in your receivership, it's hard because they've never done it before, because they've had to overcompensate to be in this masculine energy. Or maybe they had a parent who was maybe a single parent, who had to do both of like man and woman jobs. And guess what? That woman, that man, would have naturally defaulted into masculine and getting things done and pushing forward and stuff. It doesn't mean that she wasn't nurturing and caring, but actually she was probably in a form of survival mode of being able to make sure there was enough food on the table. There was not, there was.

Speaker 1:

You know there's a lot of stuff that needs to happen when you're a single parent. You need to do the physical and you need to do the emotional, and sometimes you you know there are some single parents out there who are absolutely sensational and can do both and then sometimes they're just not like, for example, my mum loving, caring, but also very, very masculine in her energy and getting things done and pushing things forward. She doesn't take no for an answer, which is good in some aspects, but that was her default, which meant that feminine flow was really hard for me and I had to really learn what feminine flow was. So, yes, ask and receive support. People are around you and love you for a reason. So you know, just just accept it.

Speaker 1:

Another one could be allowing and accepting poor or abusive treatment from others. Another one could lead to not feeling good enough, no matter what you seem to do. And finally, other learned coping mechanisms related to fear of failure or inadequacy. So all of these, I hope that you can see how they all interlink. Okay, when we don't have that solid male template really does mess with us. Okay, and the same for guys.

Speaker 1:

If you don't have a solid male template, if you don't have a solid woman template, like it's, it's really important to have these templates and to acknowledge that these are really big parts of our healing. And it's not because our parents are bad, it's not because our parents didn't do the best job that they could. It's just that when we are little, we perceive things very differently and I would say I never really missed having a dad because I always felt like that role was filled by my mum, but in that I never got to have that really good and appropriate friendship or relationship with my father or with a male male figure. I had some very good male role models in my life. I didn't spend enough time with them and I really wish I had, because then I would have been able to have cultivated that father daughter or that very close family member relationship. And this is why I say to people who are single mums like make sure you put your children around good role models who will show your children what these good templates look like.

Speaker 1:

Because when you grow up and you become an adult and then you start to like do the healing, you start to do the work, and then you start to enter a relationship with a healthy, stable person, it can just send your nervous system haywire. It can make you feel so unsafe because our logical mind is like this is everything I've asked for. But then our um like nervous system is all over the place. We're feeling anxious, we're feeling scared, we're feeling really uncomfortable because we've never felt that before, okay. So that's just something to be really, really mindful of when you are dating and going through the motions, and your person is not going to be that person that gives you butterflies. He's not going to give you anxiety. He's going to be that slow burn. He's going to be that. It's going to be a spark, but it's not going to be fireworks. It's going to be a slow burn where you get to know each other and you develop multiple layers of intimacy.

Speaker 1:

Okay, if you are meeting somebody and it's fireworks, that's a red flag. Okay, that is going to switch you straight into um fight or flight. You're not going to be thinking logically with your brain, you're just going to be swept up in that and then often, but as quick as it goes up, as quick as it will go down, you're looking for those relationships that will have a slow burn, where you can build multiple layers of of intimacy and you are building those foundations of a relationship, because your, your partner, needs to be your best friend. And, if you like, jump into bed on the first date, that's absolutely fine, there's nothing wrong with that. But you're creating that soul tie with somebody that you don't really fully know yet and you haven't, you know, you're not sure. Are we aligned, all of this type of stuff?

Speaker 1:

So what I would say is that take your time. When it comes to relationships, there's never a right time or wrong time to date either. You just have to go out there, see what happens and then, if you are healed, if you're in a good place, that person will mirror back to you everything that you've ever wanted. If you're not, then you will be mirrored back the lessons you still have to learn. Okay, sorry to be the bearer of bad moods, it's not me, it's the universe. So please, like, don't give me, don't, don't, don't, don't at me hens, do people even say that anymore? Oh, my god, I'm so cringe. Anyway. Let's get into, like, the actual juicy part of how do we even heal any of this stuff.

Speaker 1:

So healing is a complex and individual process, okay, and it involves loads of self-reflection, self-compassion is key and you can seek professional support as well. It's really important to know that sometimes, when we are dealing with our conscious mind and our subconscious mind, we can't do everything okay. It's why people come to me for coaching, because I hold their subconscious mind, they're able to deal in the conscious and I'm able, and we're able to do that subconscious reprogramming, when, if that person tries to do it themselves, it would be incredibly difficult to get the same results in the same timeframe. Okay, they would probably get there eventually after a lot of hard work and a lot of mistakes. But yeah, it just depends on how valuable healing is for you.

Speaker 1:

So one of the first steps is acknowledge and validate in your feelings. This can be really hard. If dad is actually a really supportive parent, you might go, oh God, but he does this for me, he does that for me. But it's absolutely fine to acknowledge and validate your feelings. You don't have to express those to your dad, but you have to acknowledge them and validate them. That is the first one. You may have anger, you may have pain, you may have sadness, disappointment, but this is an absolute, crucial part of the healing process is acknowledging that they're there.

Speaker 1:

You might want to get some professional help, so you might consider working with a therapist, a counsellor, a coach, especially with somebody like me who has experiences in has experience in attachment and trauma. Or you may want to go to more of a counsellor where you can outlay everything and just kind of like I like to see counsellors as like a place where you go and you would vomit and you just go yeah, cool, that's it. I'm getting everything out so that you can clear space to move forward. And then with therapy, I kind of see that, as you choose the different method that works for you to challenge your thoughts about that situation. And coaching is more acknowledging what's happened, pulling it to the surface, cutting it off at the root, and then moving forward is having that follow-up action plan. So you may want to start to look at the boundaries in your relationships as well. So this may include your father if necessary. So it's crucial for well-being, especially if you're embarking on a spiritual journey. If your boundaries on the earth plane are like wibbly wobbly, then the spiritual plane guess what? They're going to be wibbly wobbly and then we let all sorts of shit in or things get attached to us or we. Yeah, anyway, long story short, just keep your boundaries all up together.

Speaker 1:

Another thing is the practice of self-compassion. If you're in the manifestation hub, you have got an entire space dedicated to self-compassion, so go and check that out. And if you want to treat yourself with kindness and understanding, if you want to recognize this is okay to have setbacks. This all needs self-compassion, and it's about avoiding self-blame and negative self-talk on this topic. You didn't do anything wrong, you were just fucking born. Okay, you were born and you experienced things and that's fine. That's absolutely fine.

Speaker 1:

Another step you can take is cultivate self-awareness. Reflect on how your father wounds may be influencing your thoughts, behaviors and relationships. You know you may want to increase self-awareness because this will empower you to make positive choices, like, for example, when you are triggered and you're feeling really reactive. Try and trace it back to the root cause. Why am I feeling reactive? Because if it's hysterical, it's historical. So what does that even mean? If it's an overreaction, then that is because it's historical. Okay, if it's hysterical, it's historical. So if you're having an overreaction and you're feeling really reactive, come back to the root, okay. So, for example, if you face criticism at work, this may be met with defensiveness because your father was highly critical of you. Just saying okay, saying okay another one.

Speaker 1:

Build a support system around you. Surround yourself with supportive friends, family members or even a support group okay, have a network of understanding and caring individuals who can give you support during this healing journey. I run the sister circle in newport, the, the manifestation hub is a community. We've got so many different communities within my sphere. So, yeah, if you want to join online or in person, like, just send me a DM we're happy to have more people, because I'm really passionate about people healing themselves and there's always room for one more. So, yeah, let me know, let me know, let me know, let me know.

Speaker 1:

The next thing is to basically practice mindfulness and self-care. You want to do the meditation, the journal and the yoga, the activities that will bring you back to yourself? Okay, I need you to be tapping into your intuition here. Okay, we can't have all of these other things going on. We need to come back to us. What is our intuition telling us that's so important? And whatever self-care is for you, make sure that you do it. Okay, sometimes, one of the hardest things that we can do is understand our father's perspective, okay, so, while we're recognizing our father wounds, we need to try and understand your father from a father's perspective. So, when you strip away the layers to him as a man with his own trauma and experiences, this doesn't mean that it's an excuse for his behavior, but it sometimes can be easier to foster empathy or even to give forgiveness, because, yeah, yeah, sometimes we need to forgive that person to move on.

Speaker 1:

You want to create your own narrative. You may want to slowly identify yourself as someone who doesn't have father wounds. So, instead of defining yourself solely through the lens of your father wounds, you focus more on your strengths, your accomplishments and the person you want to become. This is the chance to reparent yourself and again, you may want you know my podcasts are only just the beginning. These are only small little um nuggets, I guess, for you to take away and go. Okay, I want to learn more about this. So educate yourself, understand the concepts and try to apply this into your life and ways that you can heal yourself, and understanding the theory of inner child and father wounds and mother wounds. It can be so beneficial.

Speaker 1:

I'm not going to give you everything away in this podcast because one, I don't have the time. I'll be here all day. Two, I have to save stuff for my coaching clients. Three, I don't know everything. I'm not an expert, but you can be your own expert and you can read and resonate with what feels aligned for you. And, last but not least, you want to connect your inner child, build that relationship with your inner child. You know you're able to grieve together the parent you wish that you had. It's so fine to do that. So, yeah, surround yourself with lovely people who will take care of you. And don't forget the impact of father wounds, can you know, vary widely from person to person. Not everyone experiences challenges in their relationship with their father that will necessarily develop in lasting wounds, but there could be lots of different, like cuts or scrapes in there that need addressing in order to be fully healed in this and have good, healthy relationships with men. And if men did the work on themselves and women did the work on themselves, there would be a lot more healthy relationships out there.

Speaker 1:

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Speaker 1:

So, yeah, if you're interested, check out my website. All the details are there and I'm going to leave it there for today. Guys, I'm just going to park this here because I've talked an awful lot and I hope that made sense. And, yeah, just sending you loads and loads of love on this topic, because I know it's quite hard and I'm so very proud of you for making it to the end of this podcast. I hope it helped. If you have any questions, slide me an email, dm, on instagram, whatever. And, yeah, I'm wishing you the best, best day ever and sending you loads of love. See you next week.

Understanding Father Wounds and Relationships
Healing Father Wounds and Relationships
Navigating Father Wounds and Relationships
Healing Father Wounds Through Self-Compassion
Closing Remarks and Call to Action