The Father Wound: The Forge & The Apprentice

For a long time, I believed I was carrying a mother wound.Recently, I've begun to realize that the story was incomplete.Trigger Warning! Physical, mental, and emotional abuse is discussed!I explore the reality that the deepest pattern in my life didn't begin with my mother, but with the only father I ever truly knew: my grandfather. A brilliant, complicated man who taught me to think, reason, write, and question everything—while also shaping the invisible beliefs I carried about love, worth, intelligence, and what it means to be enough.This isn't an episode about assigning blame or me attempting to rewrite history. It's an exploration of inheritance—of how we can receive extraordinary gifts and painful wounds from the same hands.As always, these are not conclusions. They're field notes from an ongoing investigation into my own psyche.I'm starting to see, and you are my witness. Thank you.Support the show