When his two-year-old daughter tells him to go back to work, Dan unpacks the emotional sting of parental rejection, both in the toddler years and beyond. From silent walks with his teenage daughter to a career decision that quietly distanced him from his father, this episode explores what it means to be pushed away by the people we love most, and how staying close, even from the hallway, can be an act of love.
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When his two-year-old daughter tells him to go back to work, Dan unpacks the emotional sting of parental rejection, both in the toddler years and beyond. From silent walks with his teenage daughter to a career decision that quietly distanced him from his father, this episode explores what it means to be pushed away by the people we love most, and how staying close, even from the hallway, can be an act of love.
When Dan's son Jacob was born, there were no doctors, just a shoelace and adrenaline. Twenty years later, his daughter Ruby arrived in calm, quiet order. Against the backdrop of these two births, this episode explores the plans we make, the ones that fall apart, and the surprising beauty that sometimes shows up anyway.
Diapers For Two
When his two-year-old daughter tells him to go back to work, Dan unpacks the emotional sting of parental rejection, both in the toddler years and beyond. From silent walks with his teenage daughter to a career decision that quietly distanced him from his father, this episode explores what it means to be pushed away by the people we love most, and how staying close, even from the hallway, can be an act of love.
