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This is where we share resources, rituals, education and stories from our community to showcase how ritual and ceremony can be woven into moments and milestones across the life cycle.

Ceremony Stories

A TFMR Birth Story

Ali Hiebert explores the connections between life and loss within the context of ritual and ceremony, following the loss of her son Paris.

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Dates & Events

Mother’s Day Grief

For many people, Mother’s Day is filled with celebration and joy as they honour the mother figures in their lives. Yet, Mother’s Day can be complicated, especially for those who are grieving.

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Ceremony Stories

How to Host a Grief Walk

Helen Grymaloski explored the rituals offered in Be Ceremonial and created a unique and meaningful Grief Walk Ceremony for the Dryden Regional Palliative Care Committee that she volunteers with.

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Our Rituals

Reclaiming your birth story

Reclaim your birth story by taking the time to pause, reflect, and be intentional with how you remember and share your birth experience. It can be very beneficial for your own mental health as you transition into parenthood.

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Ceremony Stories

A Liver Transplant Ceremony

With the support of Be Ceremonial, Ali Hiebert created her own liver transplant ceremony, complete with rituals that helped her heal and release what she needed to let go of before, during, and after her surgery. 

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Our Rituals

The importance of a divorce ritual

This is our guide to creating a divorce ceremony that feels like you, including rituals that will help you let go of what was, find contentment with what is, and plant seeds for what you hope will be.

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Ceremony Stories

My Virtual Crone Ceremony

Helen Grymaloski is an End of Life Doula and Artist in Vermilion Bay, Ontario. She used Be Ceremonial to create a Virtual Crone Ceremony to acknowledge the importance of a milestone birthday and to help initiate her into this next chapter of life with friends from afar.

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Ceremony Stories

A Memorial Do-Over

For Nicki Elischer, co-founder of With Love Grief Gifts, it was important to honour the one year anniversary since her grandma died with a do-over memorial that was intentional and meaningful for all those who loved her.

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Ceremony Stories

My End of Year Ceremony

RoseAnne DesMarais created a Closing the Year Ceremony with her husband, drawing from our rituals to let go of 2022 and move into 2023 with intention, connection, and authenticity.

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Dates & Events

Winter Solstice Rituals

Draw inspiration from these rituals to create your own Winter Solstice ceremony and acknowledge this time of transition as we move from darkness into light.

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Our Rituals

4 Rituals To Help You Close The Year

Before you set intentions for the new year, consider how you want to wrap up 2022. Draw from our curated rituals to create your own Closing the Year ceremony and acknowledge the end of the year in a way that feels right to you.

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Our Rituals

Remembering Death Anniversaries

A death anniversary ceremony is designed to help mark an anniversary, holiday or special date connected to a loved one’s death, giving us the opportunity to slow down, pause, and acknowledge what we’re holding.

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Ceremony Stories

Johanna’s Fairy Door

As the anniversary of the loss of our daughter approached, we both knew we wanted a way to express our grief, and do more than survive the day. But we had no idea where to begin, or even whether it was normal to want to acknowledge this moment.

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Ceremony Stories

Creating a Grief Ceremony

Be Ceremonial turned me into a confident ceremonialist. The app gave me the structure, language, cadence, and confidence I needed to host this important grief & remembrance ceremony for my Mother-in-Law.

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Our Rituals

A Guide to Planning a Celebration of Life

Whether you’re planning a Celebration of Life for yourself or a loved one, we’ll go through everything you need to know about how to make this ceremony unique and meaningful, including a few samples of the hundreds of secular rituals we offer.

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Our Rituals

Rituals for Pregnancy & Infant Loss

In honour of Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month, we are sharing four rituals we hope will help grieving parents navigate through the devastating, complicated, and traumatic experience of pregnancy and infant loss.

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Ceremony Stories

A Ritual Story for a Celebration of Life

Be Ceremonial’s Legacy Jar ritual gave me new insight into the power of ceremony as I helped plan a Celebration of Life for a friend. This is a fantastic resource, especially those who work in the end of life space.

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by Jo-Anne Haun, Death Doula Network of BC

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Education

Cold Water Rituals: 4 Benefits of Cold Plunging 

Cold plunging, also known as cold water therapy, is an ancient ritual that is widely practiced by many cultures and gaining popularity for its wide variety of wellness benefits. Learn how to turn cold plunging into a ritual that nourishes your mind, body, and soul.

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Ceremony Stories

My Crone Ceremony

We live in a culture that has reduced the archetype of Crone to a scary and solitary figure of a woman past her usefulness. We have also lost much of our knowledge and capacity for meaningful ceremony and ritual to mark life transitions.

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Ceremony Stories

A Stillbirth Ceremony

We moved through the ceremony creation process slowly, giving the parents time to sit and connect with each section and choose rituals that felt meaningful and right for their baby and their living children.

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Ceremony Stories

Holding Space For Grief

I believe we all know how to show up for people at the end of life, we just need to be reminded. I want to empower people to really trust themselves, to trust that they intuitively know how to do this.

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Our Values

Our Ceremony Acknowledgment

As white, cisgendered settlers, we acknowledge the complicated history and relationship people have with ritual and ceremony. We acknowledge the harm that has been caused by white colonizers and we commit to unlearning and relearning how to be in good relationship with a ceremonial practice.

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