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Dear Young Married Couple

Healing the WOUNDS from an ABSENT FATHER w/ Dr. Douglas Carpenter

Dear Young Married Couple

Adam & Karissa King

Sexuality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Relationships, Health & Fitness

4.8872 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Douglas Carpenter experienced an emotionally absent father growing up and he shares the impact that it made on him in today's episode. His career and calling are now all about helping people impacted by the same. He's an author, speaker, and psychologist who works to heal the wounds of trauma and fatherlessness.   You can order Dr. Carpenter's book here.   You can contact Dr. Carpenter here: www.insightcounselingpc.com drdwc69@me.com   Dr. Carpenter recommended: Trauma and the Non-Alpha Male by Dr. Douglas Carpenter Changing Course by Claudia Black Healing the Shame that Binds You by John Bradshaw The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk   Stay in conversation with us on IG: @dearyoungmarriedcouple or on our website: www.dearyoungmarriedcouple.com     Join us for the next Monthly Live Date Night where we dig into some of these topics with you LIVE for 90 minutes this month! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Your words become the internal voice for your child.

0:03.7

And I will ask them, whose voice is that?

0:06.2

It's my father's voice.

0:07.4

It's my mother's voice.

0:08.6

It's my grandparents' voice.

0:10.2

Okay, men funnel most of their emotions through what we call the anger funnel.

0:15.1

Oftentimes, anger will land in pain or hurt or disappointment.

0:19.6

You know, and we don't know what to do with those feelings,

0:22.2

especially if you're in alpha male and have been trained that you can't show emotions or you're

0:26.4

going to look like a sissy. I move in with my junk and you move in with your junk. And if we

0:30.8

don't open our suitcases and share what's in them, we're going to end up hitting each other with

0:34.7

these suitcases. If your reaction on a scale from 1 to 10 is over and 3, that issue is connected to an earlier

0:41.4

wound.

0:41.9

When have you felt this way before in your life?

0:47.3

Dear young married couple, you're in a busy season of your life.

0:52.2

You're probably working and involved in ministry. On top of that,

0:56.3

you might even be parents or students. You're maxed, but you really want to stay connected in your marriage.

1:03.6

And that's why we're bringing this podcast to you. I'm Adam King. And I'm Carissa King, and we work with

1:09.0

busy couples just like you in our counseling

1:11.1

office here in Sacramento, California. We also work with couples all over the world through online

1:15.7

counseling, and our couples are really just looking for ways to communicate with each other

1:19.8

more effectively. Some of them are looking to heal from a breach and trust, or find direction

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