Healing the Father Wound

A father can be absent from a child’s life. He can also be physically present and still feel emotionally far away.

For some people, the pain connected to their relationship with their father is obvious. For others, it is much harder to name. Perhaps your father was distant, inconsistent, highly critical, difficult to please, emotionally unavailable, or simply unable to give you something you needed. Perhaps you grew up believing you had to achieve, behave, perform, or become someone d…