Daughters and their Fathers: It's Complicated

A San Fernando Valley native, a proud parent of two, longtime IT communication technology broker, and now a professional visitation monitor in family law cases. David recounts raising a daughter as a single father and shares his challenges as well as his success.

Pia Massie, award-winning multi-media artist, activist, and teacher, chronicles her challenging but loving relationship with her father, starting with the death of her mother when Pia was only four.

Terri Hanauer is a multiple award-winning Los Angeles theatre director, actor, photographer, and author. In this episode, she illuminates her years growing up with her formidable father -- a lifelong butcher, shul gabbai, and Holocaust survivor.

Gail Rosenblum is a Minneapolis-based journalist, essayist, public speaker, teacher, and producer, whose work has appeared in dozens of newspapers and national magazines over more than forty years. She recounts her Renaissance Man of a father — clinical psychologist, professor, and Civic Light Opera star.

Counselor, author, and podcaster Susan Burrell recounts her unexpectedly positive relationship with her elderly father and reveals the steps she took to finding renewed happiness in love and life.

Jungian analyst, lecturer and author Susan E Schwartz, PhD, shares her Jungian analytical perspective on the father-daughter relationship and illuminates how we can use our own dreams to understand how best to heal our emotional wounds.

Screenwriter and director Vicki Polon (writer of Girlfriends and Mr. Wonderful) shares her unexpected late-in-life relationship with her father.

Scholar, author, and positive psychology coach, Diane Dreher discusses fathers and daughters in Shakespeare's plays.

SNL writer Margaret Oberman shares stories about growing up with a mobbed up father.

Biblical scholar Dr. Johanna Stiebert shares insights on fathers and daughters in the Old Testament.