Welcome, guys and gals. I'm Connor Beaton, and today on this week's midweek mini episode, we are going to

talk about how to forgive your father. Now, if you have tuned into some of the anonymous

conversations that I've been having and some of the ones that are going to be coming up,

there is a revolving theme that you might notice

in that revolving theme is in and around a wound with the father, a break with the father. And this is a

very common thing, right? A lot of men feel like they didn't get what they need from their,

from their father or their father figure and this can show up

in a bunch of ways so whether or not you are like oh yeah i had this abusive father or oh yeah my father abandoned

me or oh yeah you know my my father uh was never around there are many different variations of not

getting what we need from from our father figure. It may just be that

he wasn't able to give you guidance or direction in the way that you wanted and needed as a kid.

It may be that he didn't teach you how to strive for the goals that you wanted in your life

because he was constantly playing it safe.

And maybe that he didn't show you how to have a healthy relationship with anyone because he got divorced and never dated anyone else.

There's so many versions of this.

But one of the greatest strategies that young men and old men and just men of all generations are facing right now

is growing up in some form of a fatherless home. And a fatherless home doesn't mean that your

father wasn't there. It can mean that your father was drunk all the time. It can mean that

your dad was shut down and didn't talk to you about the things that you

needed to talk about.

It can be that your father was a workaholic and was only there, you know, once a week on

weekends.

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