Amanaa Kaur
Healing the Father Wound
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📅 Dates: 14th & 15th June
⏰ Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (IST)
🌈 Open to: All genders
💸 Energy Exchange: ₹5000
📍Location: Zoom
(link shared upon registration)
The father wound is the emotional pain we carry when our father was absent, critical, emotionally distant, or unsafe. It can make us feel unworthy, unsupported, or like we always have to do everything alone. This wound often shows up in adult life as trouble trusting others, struggling to receive love or help, overworking to prove ourselves, or repeating unhealthy relationship patterns. Healing the father wound isn’t about blaming him, it’s about learning to give ourselves the love, safety, and approval we may have never received so we can feel whole and free in who we are.
The absence of a loving, attuned father leaves a mark.
Whether he was emotionally distant, physically absent, overly critical, or even aggressive—it mattered.
And it still does.
When a girl grows up without a safe masculine presence, she often learns one thing:
"I must do it all alone."
That belief doesn’t just stay in your mind.
It gets into your bones.
Into how you move through the world.
It shows up in your relationships, your body, your bedroom, your bank account.
Here’s how the father wound can show up:
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You attract emotionally unavailable or avoidant partners
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You overfunction, overgive, and overprove, especially at work
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You freeze or shut down when it's time to receive
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You find yourself drawn to men who mirror the same pain your father caused
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Your nervous system doesn’t know what safety with the masculine feels like
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You fear taking up space but secretly resent being overlooked
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Your sexuality feels disconnected, performative, or heavy with shame
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Your inner critic sounds a lot like your father’s voice
We’ve seen the father wound play out again and again in Hindi cinema—whether it’s the harsh, authoritarian father in Udaan, the emotionally distant one in Tamasha, or the critical, success-obsessed parent in Taare Zameen Par. These films don’t just entertain,they reflect a collective ache. The father wound is what happens when a child grows up feeling unseen, unloved, or unsafe in the presence of their father. And that pain doesn't just vanish with age,it shapes how we show up in love, in work, in our own sense of worth. It teaches us to chase approval, suppress emotions, or build walls around our hearts. Hindi films often give us a glimpse into the deep longing behind rebellion, the silent grief behind anger, and the hunger for validation that so many of us carry. Healing the father wound means finally giving yourself the love and recognition you waited for and choosing to break the cycle within.
🎬 Hindi Films with Father Wound Themes
1. Tamasha (2015)
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A father who dismisses his son’s creative spirit, pushing him into a "normal" life.
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The wound shows up as suppression, identity loss, and people-pleasing.
2. Dear Zindagi (2016)
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Subtle but deep emotional abandonment from the father.
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Shows up as intimacy issues, anxiety, and avoidance in relationships.
3. Udaan (2010)
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A powerful portrayal of an abusive, authoritarian father.
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The son’s emotional numbness, rage, and creative longing reflect a raw father wound.
4. Rockstar (2011)
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The emotionally unavailable family structure—including a distant father—fuels his inner chaos and artistic fire.
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Explores pain as a catalyst for passion and destruction.
5. Wake Up Sid (2009)
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A soft version of the father wound—emotionally unavailable and transactional.
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Sid’s sense of aimlessness, entitlement, and desire for validation stem from this dynamic.
6. Taare Zameen Par (2007)
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A child crushed by a father’s rigid expectations and inability to understand him.
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Illustrates the trauma of being unseen and misunderstood by the masculine.
7. Kapoor & Sons (2016)
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Dysfunctional family, emotionally complex father-son relationship.
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Hints of disappointment, favoritism, and silence between generations.
8. Gunjan Saxena (2020)
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Subverted father wound—shows a present, supportive father as a contrast to a world of masculine dismissal.
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Highlights what happens when the wound isn’t passed on.
9. Raanjhanaa (2013)
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The father-son relationship isn't central, but the silent, passive masculine plays a role in his inability to self-regulate or express emotions healthily.
10. Highway (2014)
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The father wound here is more literal and violent—betrayal and denial around sexual trauma.
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Explores how silence and suppression fracture the feminine
The father wound teaches you to hustle for love. Healing teaches you to rest in it=
You can rewrite this.
You can heal this.
And when you do—everything changes.
When a woman begins to heal her father wound, she softens without collapsing.
She learns to trust herself—and her “no” becomes sacred.
She calls in partners who respect her, meet her, see her.
She stops hustling for worth and starts moving from wholeness.
She learns how to receive—not just love, but money, support, pleasure, life.
Your father may have shaped your story.
But he doesn’t have to define your future.
This workshop is an invitation to come home to yourself.
To meet the places that still ache for his love—with compassion, not blame.
To stop looking for “daddy” in lovers, bosses, or spiritual teachers.
To re-parent the parts of you that feel too much, too needy, or never enough.
To finally feel safe in your own body.
We’ll use somatic tools, inner child healing, breathwork, and deep emotional release to not just talk about the wound—but to move it through your body.
This is not about hating your father.
It’s about freeing yourself.
