The Absent Wound is the most visible of the five father-wound patterns. The father isn’t there. Through death, divorce, abandonment, incarceration, deployment, or...
Read MoreAnd What He Needs You to Stop Doing This is going to be uncomfortable. I’m going to ask you to do something that goes against every instinct you have as a mother: step...
Read MoreThe Classroom Window Into Your Son’s Wound The email always starts the same way. “We’re concerned about your son’s behavior.” And the parent’s reaction is...
Read MoreBefore I Had a Credential, I Had a Calling Before I was Dr. Clay, I was Captain Lessor-USAF. No PhD. No license. No program. No book. A guy in his twenties proudly...
Read MoreWhen Dad Is in the House but Not in the Room When people hear the words “father wound,” they think of the absent father. The dad who left. The dad in...
Read MoreThe Emotion Everyone Treats and Nobody Understands He punched a hole in his bedroom wall last Tuesday. He’s been suspended twice this semester. He screams at his...
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