Podcast ‘Modern Love’: Open your heart and loosen! Therapist Terry Real’s advice for fathers

For Father’s Day, the modern love team asked for your stories about paternity and emotional vulnerability. We heard from listeners who told us that their fathers rarely expressed their emotions, from listeners whose fathers wore their hearts on their sleeves and from fathers who tried to navigate parenthood with emotional honesty and sensitivity. Your stories had one thing in common: even a glimpse into your father’s emotional world meant so much.

In this episode of Modern Love we hear your stories about your fathers. Then Terry Real, a family therapist, returns to the show to give his advice about being a father, while they also show children what it means to be emotionally vulnerable and available. He offers his philosophy around education through a combination of techniques.

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“Modern Love” is organized by Anna Martin and produced by Reva Goldberg, Emily Lang, Davis Land, Amy Pearl and Sara Curtis. The show is edited by Lynn Levy and Jen Poyant, our executive producer. Production management is from Christina Djossa. The show is mixed by Efim Shapiro and recorded by Maddy Masiello and Nick Pitman. It has original music from Dan Powell, Marion Lozano and Rowan Niemisto. Our theme music is from Dan Powell.

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