Blog
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.
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Holding Space For Grief
We live in this death-denying, grief-denying culture. We are all going to die, and yet we rarely talk about it.
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Breaking Free from Convention
Jordan Kallman on two weddings, one in Portland and one at Burning Man, and breaking free from convention to design a ceremony about love.
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Becoming a Mother
Joy F. on years of silent pregnancy loss, what she wishes for other women going through it, and becoming a mother through adoption.
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The Ritual of Giving
Jacqueline Way, founder of 365give, on the ceremonies around her marriage and her children’s adoptions, and giving as a daily ritual.
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When Prayer Meets Meditation
Actor Michelle Morgan on blending prayer and meditation, and the family rituals that bring her household back into flow.
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Ceremony as a Conversation
Quanita Roberson on the conversation between ritual and ceremony, the daily practices that connect her to spirit, and circle as a way back to each other.
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Family Ceremony & Storytelling
Laura Lee Hamm, founder of Fabled Kids, on why kids come to ceremony naturally and how family story play honours their imagination.
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Sisterhood of the Travelling Talisman – Part 2
Marina Billinghurst shares her journey through infertility and loss, and how the jade stone talisman from Part 1 found its way to her.
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Making Ceremony Personal – For You and Your Family
Carla Weinstein, founder of The Drop In Project, on keeping family and personal ceremony adaptable, and finding ritual in paying attention.
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Ceremony and the Artist
Vancouver artist Tiko Kerr on the daily ceremonies of rowing, home and painting, and how ritual brings him fully into the present.
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Sisterhood of the Travelling Talisman – Part 1
After years of fertility struggles, Myriam Steinberg found ceremony on a frozen lake, and a jade talisman passed between women hoping to become mothers.
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The Story of Wills
After losing her son Wills, Sarah Manvell began making memory boxes so no grieving family leaves the hospital with just an envelope of pamphlets.