{"id":27959,"date":"2026-11-03T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=27959"},"modified":"2026-11-02T20:41:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T03:41:48","slug":"terri-cole-healing-the-worthiness-wound","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/podcast\/terri-cole-healing-the-worthiness-wound\/","title":{"rendered":"Terri Cole: \u201cHealing the Worthiness Wound\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; border: 0 none;\" src=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/shows\/1632d73c-91ea-42a8-a3db-a62b135d081c\/episodes\/e3f308d5-c27d-48c7-84e1-1c34a54a78fe\/embed?theme=light-gray-orange\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Terri Cole calls it an invisible wound: the imprint left when a daughter never receives protection, presence, or emotional attunement from her father. This week, Tami Simon talks with Terri Cole\u2014Sounds True&#8217;s own Boundary Boss\u2014about her new book, <em>Father Wound<\/em>, and why even women with loving fathers can carry this wound without ever naming it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Terri Cole, MSW, LCSW, is a licensed psychotherapist, relationship expert, and best-selling author who has spent nearly three decades helping people break dysfunctional patterns and build healthier relationships with themselves and others. With Sounds True, she is the author of the trilogy that began with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boundary Boss<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and continued with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Too Much: A Guide to Breaking the Cycle of High-Functioning Codependency<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Her newest book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Father Wound: Break Unhealthy Patterns to Reclaim Your Worth and Power<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, examines what happens when a father or father figure is absent, abusive, immature, or simply not emotionally attuned\u2014and why daughters of patriarchy carry a version of this wound no matter what kind of father they had.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this conversation, Tami and Terri explore:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0How to recognize a father wound even when &#8220;my father wasn&#8217;t that bad&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why Terri defines the father wound as, at its root, a worthiness wound<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The difference between self-parenting and re-parenting, and what healing your inner child looks like in daily decisions<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The &#8220;father wound trance&#8221;: how old patterns resurface in adult relationships, and how to work with transference instead of being run by it<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mourning the Dream, Terri&#8217;s exercise for grieving the father you wished you&#8217;d had<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why healing this wound personally is tied to healing patriarchy at a collective, societal level<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who this episode is for: anyone doing inner child work, anyone who keeps finding themselves in the same relationship pattern and wondering why, and anyone ready to ask whether their sense of worth was shaped long before they had any say in it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listen now, and start reclaiming your worth. \u2192<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This interview originally aired on Sounds True One, where you can enjoy early, ad-free access to episodes of <em>Insights at the Edge: <\/em>https:\/\/join.soundstrue.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27961,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[392,389,1085,385,391],"tags":[170,242],"contributor":[965],"class_list":["post-27959","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-and-healing","category-parenting-and-children","category-personal-growth","category-psychology","category-relationships","tag-insights-at-the-edge","tag-tami-simon","contributor-terri-cole"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Terri Cole: \u201cHealing the Worthiness Wound\u201d | Sounds True<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Terri Cole: \u201cHealing the Worthiness Wound\u201d | Sounds True\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Terri Cole calls it an invisible wound: the imprint left when a daughter never receives protection, presence, or emotional attunement from her father. 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