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This deeply personal episode of The Aligned Father takes you inside the core wound that shaped host Lirec Williams through childhood, adulthood, and fatherhood. After years of shadow work, Lirec uncovered a belief born from harsh discipline and constant correction, the belief that he cannot do anything right. This episode breaks down how that wound shaped him as a son, big brother, uncle, father, and partner.

Lirec opens up about taking on his family’s problems as a child, becoming the emotional fixer, and carrying guilt and responsibility that pushed him into depression. He shares how leaving Houston created a gap in family relationships and how the pressure to be the strong one shaped his entire identity. As a father, he explains how this wound impacted his parenting of a teenage daughter. Every mistake felt personal, every behavior felt like failure, and conversations often turned into lectures instead of confidence building.

Lirec also dives into how this core wound fed people pleasing and over functioning in relationships, especially with an anxious avoidant partner. He personalized every conflict, tried to fix every emotional trigger, and carried resentment for responsibilities he never should have held alone.

Through real-life fatherhood experiences, emotional healing, and research based insights, this episode explores parenting resilience, parent-child relationships, attachment patterns, emotional intelligence, respectful parenting, and how fathers can move from fear to presence. You will learn how childhood punishment shapes your nervous system, why perfectionism forms in boys who grow up afraid to be wrong, and how to break the cycle so your children experience healthier forms of parenting and connection.

This episode is for dads navigating fatherhood challenges, mental healing, real dad experiences, co-parenting struggles, burnout, and the search for purpose. Listen if you want to build emotional safety, healthy masculinity, and generational healing in your family.

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