New Beginnings CounsellingBW

How to Cope with Not Knowing Your Father

• Dr Tshidi M Wyllie,PhD. • Season 3 • Episode 19

🌿 The Silent Wound: Growing Up Without a Father 🌿 

        Written By Rittah Mmonadibe , 

        Edited by Dr T.M Wyllie 

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       Looking at social media this past Sunday was heartbreaking. While we celebrated daddies with love and laughter, it was evident that Father’s Day is a painful trigger for some.

     For those who grew up without a present or supportive father, father’s day can open old wounds. It may become a reminder of what was missed and continue to be missed; daddy’s warm  hugs that never came, the comforting words never spoken, the presence that was never felt. An absent father leaves behind more than silence. He leaves questions, emotional scars, and sometimes a lifelong search for identity and desire for a sense of belonging.

       Not forgetting single mothers, who carry both the heavy weight of being a mother and a father to provide a  nurturing and protective environment whilst having to wipe away tears of their children and  at the same time often having to hide their own hurts.  To these mothers, Father’s Day can be a reminder of the load they have to carry alone, sacrifices they have to make, and of the emotional labour that often goes unseen or an appreciated. 

   New Beginnings Counselling Centre counsellors understand the deep emotional pain in this situation and believe that ruptures can be repaired and relationships healed. We are available to help.

    To anyone who found Father’s Day triggering and challenging to navigate; your feelings are valid, your  pain is real and  healing is possible.

💚Talk to someone.

💚 You are not alone.

💚You are worthy of love and healing.

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