Hey, you guys, welcome back to this week's episode. Thanks for joining me if you're watching this on

YouTube. Let's get a little snack and kind of settle in here. And if you're listening to this,

I hope you're going for your walk today or maybe your commute to work isn't so bad. I hope this

is the podcast that you really needed to listen to in order to just kind of gain that insight.

But I thought it would be a great time to start

tackling some of the really big wounds. I know we did an episode recently, and we talked about

some core emotional wounds that we all kind of go through. And I think there are significant

relationships, obviously in our life, obviously in childhood that form us and shape us.

Our parents are the two

significant relationships. So between mom and dad. And today I thought it would be a great idea

to kind of tackle our dads out there. You know, and this isn't to put shade on anyone because,

look, we're all, we're adults at this point. We understand that we're all human and we're living

this human experience. And hopefully by this time, you've learned enough where you've been able to forgive a lot of people,

parents included, who didn't always do the best job.

And I know this can be a really painful topic because not everyone is there and not everyone has

offered that grace to some of the people in

their lives, particularly their parents, most likely their father. And it can be a real struggle

to offer forgiveness and try to understand why he did what he did or why he behaved the way he behaved towards you or maybe your

siblings or possibly even your mother if, you know, there was some trauma there and some

things or resent possibly. The point of this is for us to understand how this man affected

us, both good and bad. And sometimes the bad stuff that comes leaves a lasting

impression. And it can help us in a lot of good ways if we really understand. Now, obviously,

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