Aug 27, 2026 · 31 min · 16 segments
Have you ever felt like you have to be helpful enough, easygoing enough, or needed enough to truly earn your place in your stepfamily? Psychotherapist and bestselling author Terri Cole joins Cameron…
So let's, I wanna dive into this because you've got a new book out, and it's fabulous.
Okay, so a father wound is a psychological and emotional injury that happens when you have a father growing up, you had a father who was either, could be emotionally, you know, abusive, could be absent, could be, um, someone who just wasn't attuned at all, authoritarian, drug addicted, alcoholic.
So it's somewhere we learned from that person that we weren't good enough as we were, that you needed to be different, better, more accomplished to be worthy of love and consideration.
Listen, just like every other thing I've ever written about, from boundaries to codependency, which are my two...
So let's, I wanna dive into this because you've got a new book out, and it's fabulous.
Okay, so a father wound is a psychological and emotional injury that happens when you have a father growing up, you had a father who was either, could be emotionally, you know, abusive, could be absent, could be, um, someone who just wasn't attuned at all, authoritarian, drug addicted, alcoholic.
So it's somewhere we learned from that person that we weren't good enough as we were, that you needed to be different, better, more accomplished to be worthy of love and consideration.
Listen, just like every other thing I've ever written about, from boundaries to codependency, which are my two...
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