Question, do you have daddy issues?

And by that, I mean, do you have an up and down or non-existent relationship with your father?

And also, have you ever dated a guy and then suddenly realized one day, oh my god, he's just like my dad?

Well, today I'm going to talk about why this psychological phenomenon is creeping its way into your romantic relationships, plus

three things that you can do about it from a therapist.

Hi, I'm Gloria Zhang, and after 10 years of struggling in toxic relationships, I attracted the love

of my life by healing my inner child.

This podcast is your weekly dose of my expertise as a therapist and dating relationship coach

for high achievers. Learn tips to overcome low self-worth, emotional baggage, and childhood trauma

so that you too can step into your power and

attract the love you desire. Welcome to the Inner Child Podcast. Welcome, welcome to officially

the second episode of The Inner Child Podcast. I'm your host, Gloria Zhang, resident therapist,

and I help you overcome people pleasing

and low self-worth for good. Today we are talking about daddy issues. And that's sort of the

pulp culture name for it. We call this the father wound. The father wound is that deep longing

inside all of us to make our fathers proud,

to feel unconditionally loved by our dad, and also to feel like we've pleased our father.

This is an incredibly painful thing to talk about.

Almost all my clients have gone through something called the three capital A's,

which is abuse, absence, and addiction. And if you have any sort of relationship to any of these

three things growing up, then yeah, you might have a father wound, aka daddy issues. And,

you know, like I said before, if this part of you is not

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