Zimmerman Podcast Episode 133: REPARENTING YOUR INNER CHILD: Finding What You’re Looking for… Inside Yourself: Healing Father Wounds

Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 133: REPARENTING YOUR INNER CHILD: Finding What You’re Looking for… Inside Yourself: Healing Father Wounds

“Daddy issues.”

We’ve all heard the term. When a woman finds herself in another relationship with a “deadbeat” guy, or a man keeps running into problems with the law, we tend to say they have “daddy issues.”

And while that might be an unfair stereotype, there is a reality to the impact of father wounds.

Last week, we talked about how mother wounds impact how we view ourselves and our identity when a mother’s nurturing presence is withheld or damaged.

With a father wound, we tend to see how a father’s absence or negative presence creates ripples of pain throughout a child’s life. Research shows that one in four families in the US operates without a present father. And many more have a physically present father who is still emotionally distant, abusive, or toxic.

A father wound might be inflicted in childhood, but many of us try to power through the pain without finding real healing. We try to stitch closed an infected wound and instead of healing, it festers. The only way to truly heal is to open the wound back up and clean out all the bad.

So let’s talk about how to do that in today’s episode.

EPISODE 133 TOPICS:

By learning to identify our father wounds and how they manifest in our adult lives, we can truly heal from the inside out.
The classic “daddy issues” stereotype: Those with more subtle father wounds may “call in” relationships with men that seem ideal.
How to identify father wounds in your own life

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