14/06/2025
Helpful words for this Father’s Day ❤️
To anyone dreading Father’s Day: This one is for you 💕 🕯️
Father’s Day can be one of the hardest days of the year if your dad has died — or if your child has.
The marketing emails, the pub lunches, the smiling family photos — what seems like simple joy for others can hit like a wave of grief.
And everywhere you turn, there are reminders of what’s missing. Of who’s missing.
If you are dreading tomorrow and it’s going to be painful for you, please be gentle with yourself this weekend.
You don’t need to plaster on a smile or push through like it’s any other day.
You don’t need to ‘stay strong.’
Grief doesn’t disappear just because it’s uncomfortable and neither does love.
Your love for them and theirs for you is still here. Steady. Unchanged.
So let the day be soft. Switch off the noise if you need to — the ads, the emails, the group chats, the plans that feel like too much.
Give yourself permission to do what soothes you.
Take a quiet walk. Talk to someone who understands.
Light a candle. Watch an old film. Or do nothing at all, that’s allowed too.
If you want to remember them, you might want to mark the love in a small, personal way - here are some ideas of what you can do:
👔 Wear something of theirs.
🍳 Cook their favourite meal.
🕯️ Light a candle.
💌 Write them a letter.
♥️ Or just say their name.
A small ritual can be a powerful bridge — between now and then, between you and them.
But however you spend tomorrow, may it be with kindness, because your grief is real — and so is your love. And love like that never dies. ♥️
Sending you lots of love,
Julia x
