Who doesn’t know this catchy Eric Clapton song from 1998? I use to play this song in my family constellation workshops to help the client to make peace with his father after he has lost the connection to him, often through separation of the parents when he was a child.
Either the situation at that time or one of the parents doesn’t allow for the relationship between the son and the father to continue in a harmonious way. This can cause great suffering in the child, which often turns into anger towards his father in later years.
Finding what mends…
These deep in the soul of the son embedded emotions of anger and judgement against the father can come from an accusation that the father left him or the child takes over the emotion of his mother of anger, grief, hurt, insecurity, or shame when the father left the family.
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