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The SelfWork Podcast

131 SelfWork: When Your Dad Isn’t A Dad. The Effects of Father Hunger

The SelfWork Podcast

Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Father hunger… when your dad isn’t or wasn’t available or connected with you either due to divorce, death or disinterest — causes many problems for a child and the family as a whole. But the numbers are staggering of how many homes are without dads. There are so many engaged dads out there, but when […]

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0:00.0

This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford.

0:13.0

At self-work we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world

0:19.0

and what to do about them.

0:20.0

I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own self-work.

0:29.0

Hello and welcome to self-work. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. I'm a clinical psychologist

0:35.1

out of Fayeville, Arkansas and I've been podcasting now for two and a half years.

0:39.6

I really

0:45.0

some of the ignorance about what therapy really is.

0:48.0

So I thought I'd bring me a therapist to a podcast

0:52.0

so that you could listen.

0:53.7

I wanted to reach out to those of you who might already be comfortable with emotional and

0:57.5

psychological issues, may even be in therapy yourself, to those of you who might have been

1:01.4

recently diagnosed and are looking for answers or

1:04.6

perhaps have relationship problems that are a bit overwhelming but also to a third group

1:09.1

those of you who wouldn't necessarily ever darken the door of a therapist but would be just

1:14.9

curious to know what one might have to say. I am so delighted that many of you have

1:20.9

let me know via my email, ask Dr Margaret at

1:24.0

Dr Margaret Rutherford.com, that you have sought therapy yourself

1:27.8

because of this podcast.

1:29.7

I couldn't be more pleased.

1:31.8

Today we're going to be talking about a requested topic

1:34.3

from a listener who asked about father hunger. That term was actually first

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