A Gentle Call to Healing This Father’s Day

Jun 15, 2025By Prof. (Ààrẹ) Olusegun Daramola

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Today is not only for celebration — it is also a sacred opportunity for healing.

To those who carry wounds, conflict, or unspoken pain in their relationship with their father — I speak to your heart today with compassion:

If you are holding onto disappointment, abandonment, harsh words, silence, or unmet expectations. Please take this moment to consider releasing it.

Not for him alone — but for your own healing. Forgiveness is not forgetting; it is choosing to be free. Letting go is not weakness; it is strength rooted in wisdom.

Our fathers — like all of us — were shaped by their own stories, limitations, and silent battles. They may have failed you, hurt you, or simply not known how to love you properly. Still, carrying that burden keeps the wound alive.

Today, choose peace over pain.
Even if reconciliation isn’t possible, releasing resentment is. Even if he is no longer here, you can still speak forgiveness into the wind and be heard by the spirit.

As you heal yourself, you begin to heal your lineage. As you offer grace, you unlock space for new joy and freedom in your own heart.

Let this Father's Day be more than a tradition —Let it be a day of courageous release, a day where you rise above pain
and honour your own journey of transformation.

Forgive. Heal. Grow. And become the kind of love you wish you had received.