The Hidden Father Wound Affecting Women with Rick Alitzer
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
We’ve ignored this for too long.
A generation of women is carrying wounds from absent or distant fathers—and it’s shaping everything: identity, anxiety, even how we see God.
Today, we’re calling it out.
You are not an orphan. You are deeply loved. And it’s time to start living like it.
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| 0:00.0 | Recently, I had the opportunity to check out a brand new documentary called He Calls Me Daughter. |
| 0:07.9 | So friends of mine over at the Real Life Network said, you got to see this film. |
| 0:11.4 | You're going to love it. |
| 0:12.4 | And I'm honestly with you guys right out of the gate. |
| 0:15.6 | I didn't watch the whole thing. |
| 0:17.0 | I watched a huge chunk of the beginning and parts of the middle. And as a woman who was |
| 0:24.8 | brought up in a home that left me with a fair amount of I would, these guys call it father wound, |
| 0:31.1 | but a fair amount of dysfunction and, and just for lack of a better word, struggle in my adult life, it was hard, it was hard for me |
| 0:41.7 | to watch. And also, I think, painfully important, we are living in a time right now of |
| 0:46.8 | an incredible lack of good and godly fathers. And we desperately need our men. I do not believe in the lie of toxic |
| 0:56.3 | masculinity. I think that God has given us our men to be leaders, providers, protectors for their |
| 1:03.6 | families. I happen to be married to an extraordinary man. And anyway, I'm going to interview |
| 1:09.8 | the producer of this brand new documentary. |
| 1:14.0 | And we're going to have a conversation about what it means to see ourselves as women through the eyes of our heavenly father. |
| 1:22.1 | This is going to be a great conversation. |
| 1:23.4 | I'm glad you're here. |
| 1:23.9 | This is the Heidi St. John podcast. |
| 1:26.1 | Stick around. |
| 1:26.7 | I think you're going to This is the Heidi St. John podcast. Stick around. I think you're going to be |
| 1:27.5 | encouraged. Thank you guys for being here today. |
| 1:46.9 | And I want to thank the sponsor of my show. |
| 1:49.5 | Today's show is being a sponsored in part by my friends over at My Freedom |
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