Healing a Broken Father-Son Relationship| 398
Dad Tired
Jerrad Lopes
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Jerrad sits down with someone he never expected to share the mic with — his dad. For the first time, they talk openly about their strained relationship, what absence did to both of them, and how forgiveness and healing began. This is not a teaching. It’s a real conversation. A son and father working through decades of hurt, regret, and love.
What You’ll Hear:
• What father absence really does to a boy
• How unspoken pain shows up in marriage and parenting
• Why honest conversation can open the door to healing
• What changed when Jerrad forgave his father
• How God used brokenness to birth Dad Tired
• Why it’s never too late to reconcile
Tune in to hear what grace sounds like when it moves from theory to real life.
Episode Resources:
- Read The Dad Tired Book: https://amzn.to/3YTz4GB
- Invite Jerrad to speak: https://www.jerradlopes.com
- Support the ministry: https://www.dadtired.com/donate
- Join the Dad Tired Retreat: https://www.dadtired.com/retreat
- Learn more about WinShape Camps: winshapecamps.org
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you've been listening to the Dad Tired podcast for any amount of time or maybe you've read one of the |
| 0:04.4 | dad tired books, you have likely heard me talk about my relationship with my dad. And I never |
| 0:10.0 | want to continue to bring up my own story. And I certainly don't want to make this about me at all. |
| 0:15.4 | But my dad's absence in my childhood was played such a big role in my life. And I truly believe that dad tired |
| 0:22.8 | wouldn't be around if it weren't for that part of my story. And it's also just shaped so much of |
| 0:28.1 | like, you know, my own pain and heard and processing of God. And so much of the things that I say |
| 0:34.4 | are right come out of that foundation. For better or worse, that's a real |
| 0:38.7 | part of my story and it kind of bleeds out in everything that I do. And so my dad actually came to |
| 0:44.7 | visit this week and he's never stayed at our house before. I've never had him. Over the years, |
| 0:50.0 | we've had maybe lunches or dinners together, but I've never had an extended amount of time |
| 0:55.0 | with him outside of just one time in the last few years where he traveled with me to some speaking |
| 0:59.8 | engagements. But he's never been with my family, he's never stayed with my family or anything like |
| 1:03.7 | that. And so this last week, he was here and just kind of on the whim, I wasn't planning on doing this, but just on a whim, I said, you want to record a podcast |
| 1:11.0 | episode with me? And he said, sure. And my dad, one thing I love about him is he's down for anything. |
| 1:16.5 | And so we sat down and I just hit record. I'm telling you all this before we jump in, because |
| 1:21.2 | there's really no agenda here. I don't know if you're going to listen to this episode and get |
| 1:26.4 | any, like, huge gospel nuggets. Maybe you will. |
| 1:29.8 | It was really just kind of therapeutic for me, to be honest with you, like just to hit record and to |
| 1:34.7 | talk to my dad about the pain that I've experienced and his absence and his own childhood and all |
| 1:40.7 | that. So I guess my hope for this episode that I hope that you'll be encouraged |
| 1:45.8 | like every other dad tired podcast episode, I hope that you'll be encouraged by it. But really, |
| 1:50.3 | I guess this is just kind of your way of being a fly on the wall as you hear me, my dad talk |
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