The Powerful Role of Fathers: How Divine Masculine Energy Supports Moms and Raises Emotionally Strong Kids

In this episode of Intentional Motherhood: Creating Family Culture through Spirituality, Mindfulness, and Adventure, host Kelsey Redd dives deep into the essential role of fathers in raising emotionally healthy, well-adjusted children. Discover how the divine masculine energy — characterized by protection, provision, leadership, and emotional safety — creates a stable foundation that allows mothers to fully embrace their divine feminine roles of nurturing, connection, and creativity.

Learn how a father’s grounded presence directly supports a mother’s mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being, reducing her mental load and allowing her to parent from a place of peace and abundance. Kelsey explores how balanced masculine and feminine energies reflect God's design for the family, helping children develop emotional regulation, resilience, confidence, and strong social skills.

Whether you're a mom, dad, or simply someone passionate about intentional parenting, this episode offers spiritual insights and practical encouragement to strengthen your family culture.

✨ Topics covered:

• What is divine masculine and divine feminine energy?
• How fathers shape emotional development in children
• The spiritual leadership role of dads
• Why strong fathers help moms thrive emotionally and mentally
• How balanced parental energies create secure, resilient kids
• Encouragement for single moms to allow God to provide His Divine Masculine Energy

If you're looking to create a peaceful, intentional home where both parents thrive and children flourish, this episode is for you.

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Episode Transcript

Kelsey Redd (00:09):
Hi friends, welcome back to Motherhood, the best job
in the world. I'm your host,Kelsey Redd, formerly a mental
health counselor turned stay athome mom. And now I'm here
sharing all the wisdom andlessons I've learned through not
only ten years of clinicalpractice, but also now my
experience as a twin mom, mom offour, mom of little kids, who

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was in the trenches with you. Iknow what it's like. I know how
you feel when you're justdrowning in diapers and spilled
juice and meal prep, I'm therewith you.
But I also have a differentperspective because of the ten
years I spent wishing and hopingto build a family. After ten

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years of infertility, my twins,my miracle babies were born. And
since becoming a mom, it hasbecome my goal and my passion to
help women all around the worldto enjoy fulfilling this most
important role in life. Being amom to the rising generation, I
want to help moms learn how todo this intentionally. I want

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families to be able to create afamily culture that they are
proud of through principles ofspirituality, mindfulness,
adventure, and from a place ofempowerment with skills and
knowledge and information andeven scripts to help you feel
confident in your parentingskills and to allow you to look

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long term at what you want yourfamily to look like so that you
can develop that culture now andlive intentionally in your
family.
But today, I want to shine thespotlight on an often
underappreciated topic inmotherhood conversations, which

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is the powerful and sacred roleof fathers. Yes, as moms, we
carry so much of the emotional,mental and even physical load of
parenting. But today I want topause and honor how amazing dads
can be in deeply impacting ourchildren's growth and

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well-being, as well as our ownability to thrive as mothers.
Now I can talk about all theresearch that discusses how
involved fathers have a profoundinfluence on children's
emotional, social, and cognitivedevelopment. I could talk about
the way that dads play with kidsbeing different and more

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physical than the way moms playwith kids.
I could talk about having aninvolved dad allows children to
have higher self esteem anddevelop stronger emotional
regulation skills and even buildhealthier social relationships.
But that's not what I'm going totalk about today. What I want to
talk about is something on themore spiritual side of things. I

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want to talk about how in God'splan, masculine and feminine
energy aren't just about genderstereotypes or rigid roles, but
they are actually complementaryforces. The masculine and
feminine energies are two partsin a sacred partnership.

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The divine masculine energybrings structure, stability,
provision, protection,leadership, action and
direction, while divine feminineenergy offers intuition,
creativity, nurturing, emotionalwisdom, receptivity, flow, and

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deep connection. Both of theseenergies are needed and both
reflect different aspects ofGod's character. And when
fathers step fully into theirdivine masculine energy, they
create the safety and structurethat allows our divine feminine

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energy, which is most oftenembodied deeply in motherhood to
fully expand. So when a fatherleads from this grounded
masculine energy, childrenbenefit in so many ways. They
feel that emotional safetyknowing that there's a stability
in the home.

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They're able to set healthyboundaries because that
masculine energy naturallybrings a sense of structure.
Kids are able to benefit throughlearning about risk and
resilience because dads oftenencourage that healthy risk
taking, challenging kidsphysically. And this teaches
kids how to solve problems,explore, adventure, and develop

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confidence in their ability todo so. And lastly, a father who
leads with strength, but is alsoable to express gentleness and
tenderness teaches his childrenthat true strength and
leadership isn't harsh, but isfirm while also being safe and

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loving. When children canreceive both masculine and
feminine leadership andenergies, both the structure and
the nurture, they're able todevelop emotional regulation,
resilience, competence.
But the amazing husbands andfathers in our lives do more

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than just benefit the children.Our husbands acting in the
sacred leadership, presidingrole in our families also free
us as mothers to fully embodyour divine feminine role. When

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your husband or your partner isfully stepping into his God
given role of protector andprovider and spiritual leader,
we can feel safe to soften. Wecan surrender control and simply
nurture, create, and rest. Weare able to parent from more of

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a place of abundance.
Because of the stability that Hebrings, we can mother from a
place of overflow rather thanburnout, because we have His
support and we have Hisstability. We're able to deeply
tune into our children and bemore present and playful when we

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know that we have a partner anda helper. In this healthy
partnership, the divinemasculine energy holds space so
that the divine feminine energycan flourish. Of course, we're
sharing responsibilities. We'reboth managing the house
together, but energetically,when a father steps into

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leadership with love,consistency, and humility, it
creates a container of safetywhere our feminine hearts and
our mothering instincts canshine with full power.
So a word to any dads that mightbe listening today, and a shout
out to my husband, the father ofmy children, let me just say,

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you are so important. We honoryou so much. We are so grateful
for the things you provide, forthe stability, for the
protection, for the securitythat you give our family. You
don't have to be a perfect dadto make a really powerful

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impact. It's your steadypresence.
It's your spiritual leadership,your willingness to serve,
protect and engage with thefamily that changes everything.
I am so blessed to be able to bethe best mom I can be, because I
have an amazing partner at myside. And I want to emphasize

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that I couldn't do anything thatI do. I couldn't enjoy
motherhood as much as I do if itweren't for my partner husband,
being the best dad he can be.That may not be everyone's story
who's listening.
And I acknowledge that you maynot feel that you have that

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supportive husband and thefather that you wish your
children had. But to whateverextent we can, let's honor the
divine masculine role. Let'sallow our husbands to step into
the leadership that they weremeant to lead with. Let's praise
them for doing the best job theycan do. And let's open space for

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them to even step up into therole if they haven't yet.
So mamas, as you walk thisjourney of intentional
motherhood, I encourage you tosee your husband or your co
parent as your partner in thesacred calling. And again, if
you're parenting solo in thisseason of your life, know that

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God Himself can step into thatprotective stabilizing role for
your family, providing yourchildren what you can't carry
alone. Let's keep buildingfamily cultures that are rooted
in God's design for us, whereboth masculine and feminine
energies are honored andbalanced, and where our children

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can grow up deeply rooted insecurity, love, and grace. If
this episode touched your heartor encouraged you in any way, I
would love for you to share itwith a friend, share it with
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show so you can be notifiedanytime a new episode releases.
I hope to continue encouragingyou to create intentional
families, intentional familyculture, through mindfulness,
spirituality, and a whole lot offun and adventure.
Thank you for being here, andI'll see you next time.