Making Peace with a Toxic Father
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Our relationship with our fathers determines how we will be as fathers. But we have a choice. We can either repeat the cycle or use it as a lesson on how not to parent. Forgiveness seems impossible when it comes to someone who hurt us so badly during the time that we needed them most, but it is the only way to not let the anger rule us as parents. Today we talk about making peace with a toxic father.
Justin Chester’s father was absent most of the time. When his dad was home, he was cold and mean. He'd lock Justin outside during rainstorms and pin him to the wall for not knowing how to tie his shoes.
Now Justin has been married for 3 years and is the father of two sons, a one-year-old and a newborn. He knew that holding onto the resentment and trauma was holding him back in life. In a heroic act of forgiveness, he reached out and confronted his dad to bury the pain. His toxic father cannot take back the past, but Justin is no longer letting it poison his future.
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads. Dads with a purpose. Dads with an edge. |
| 0:10.0 | We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:14.0 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.0 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:25.0 | Gentlemen, what's going on? |
| 0:29.0 | Gentlemen, what's going on? Welcome to the Dad Edge Podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Larry Hagner, your host and founder of this show and welcome to Thursday throw down. |
| 0:36.8 | We call this show The Men in the Trenches. |
| 0:40.3 | These are the men. |
| 0:40.9 | I like to do these interviews with men who do life with us in our mastermind |
| 0:44.9 | just so they can share some of their story of what is going on in their life, why they came and did life with |
| 0:51.5 | us, what they've been able to overcome, what they've been able to execute in their life, what they've learned and how it has changed their life. |
| 0:59.6 | So that way you the listener can relate to their story, |
| 1:02.9 | can relate to what it is that they're probably |
| 1:05.1 | going through, and you can take some of these nuggets |
| 1:07.2 | that these men are learning and implement them |
| 1:09.0 | into your life as well. |
| 1:11.8 | Hey, so before we get started though today, |
| 1:13.5 | I've got some crazy, crazy statistics for you guys |
| 1:16.1 | because, you know, I'm scratching my head |
| 1:19.4 | wondering if I did the right thing |
| 1:21.8 | by getting my boys, my 12 old my 14 year old mobile devices |
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