A Fatherless Child's Journey towards Healing | Natalie Alexander | TEDxHuntsville

Natalie Alexander challenges the audience to consider the value of the father in the household and provides tools needed to begin healing the absent father wound. I remember a moment in my life when my younger brother was in the thick of his drug addiction. I was wondering why he chooses drugs? I came to the conclusion that he needed his father. Ironically, our father lived with us (my siblings' mother, and I). He and our mother provided a lifestyle that was exponentially more abundant that what they were raised with. However, he was emotionally absent. My passion for father-child relationships did not materialize until 2010 during my psychology and counseling practicum at a residential facility for adolescent boys who came from fatherless homes and were accustomed to answering to female authority.  My client population presented emotional distress that mostly was rooted in broken father relationships. Many engaged me in their healing process. My hope is that this talk will ignite a flame that will spread nationwide to fathers and children to facilitate and heal father-child relationships. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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