We’re dads! We’re married! We’re healthy and educated. We even own houses! Technically we have completed society’s cis-hetero-normative script for our lives.
That means we have our inner and outer lives under control and feel powerful and invulnerable and have no sign of weakness anywhere…right?
Wrong!
We love our families, but sometimes being a father is miserable and lonely.
Our Father’s Day gift to any dad who listens is the freedom to be imperfect, vulnerable, flawed, and lonely. Believe it or not, you are more normal than you think!
Our hope is that we can labor through the glorious and wonderful trials of father hood together, but making connections and asking for help, one awkward and vulnerable conversation at a time.
Happy Fathers Day!
This episode of SMART Counsel features the following professionals:
Rhys Pasimio - newpatterncounseling.com
Aaron Kelsay – akelsay@voaor.org
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The Master’s in Counseling program at Multnomah University and New Pattern Counseling present this podcast as a resource for aspiring and current professionals, as well as members of the greater community. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of Multnomah University or its faculty or New Pattern Counseling.
