The holidays have a way of highlighting what’s missing.
As families gather, traditions repeat, and memories resurface, many women are quietly carrying more than joy — they’re carrying responsibility, resilience, and roles they never asked for.
In this episode, recorded just days before Christmas, I share a theory I’ve been sitting with: that the nuclear family is often spiritually targeted, and fathers are frequently taken out first — not always by absence of body, but by absence of presence.
We talk about how that absence ripples through motherhood, childhood, finances, and society… and how women are often left to hold everything together during seasons that are supposed to feel full of warmth and rest.