Dear friend,

Another year has started and I feel I am living in between years and also in a year within another year? A Russian doll experience of time. A pregnancy within a pandemic. Two bodies within my own. In the land of new motherhood time moves slowly and in circles, and I am asking myself big and small questions all the time. How many ounces of milk will get these babies to sleep through the night? What are we all doing here (as in on earth) and how do we live in a way that holds this question with curiosity, allowing it to gently guide us? Questions of physical and spiritual survival swirl around and sit side by side on my tongue and in my belly.

Dear ceremony maker,

This year I will be creating a series of Ritual Maps. Ritual Maps are ceremonies that come in the form of a document which will be sent to you in the mail, packaged with care and a handmade blessing card. These Maps are much like a score or a recipe, for you to use as you guide yourself through the ceremony. Each Ritual Map is dedicated to a life moment or transition. My hope is these maps will allow you the opportunity to explore what kind of Ceremonialist you are as you collaborate and engage with them. A Ritual Map is $100-175 sliding scale

Dear artist, musician, poet creative, visionary…

The first Ritual Map will be dedicated to the Creative Wound. Like our bodies, our creative spirit gets bruised, exhausted, disoriented, broken. Sometimes this occurs after putting a specific piece of work out into the world.  Perhaps it is met with criticism or  little interest. Sometimes this occurs when you begin a project inspired and excited but in the process of creation something is lost, compromised or warped. Our creatives spirits need care just like our bodies, just like our relationships, our spaces, our communities…

“To Honor the Creative Wound” is a Ritual for anyone who has experienced pain from putting their creative work into the world or sharing it with others. The ritual is meant to help individuals acknowledge the wound around a specific work or their process, so they can move forward with joy and ease on their creative path.

Dear person on this email list,

I will be using this space to talk about ceremony and The Ceremonialist offerings. If you are not interested in being part of this conversation right now or at some point in the future, please use the unsubscribe at the bottom of the email. In a world where there is too much content, too many emails and an abundance of voices floating in and out of our spaces, it is imperative that we each have control over what comes into our Inboxes!

Dear Sharon, dear Millie, Dear Sara, Dear Rachel, Dear Jennie, dear Katey

Dear Suzi, Dear Sejal, dear Holly

Thank you for reminding me that ceremony can help. I am wary of the word heal because I am not in the business of “disappearing” things nor do I think ceremony or rituals are. But I am grateful for the opportunities I have had this year, to deal with breast milk and wombs, motherhood and fear in ways that feel as mystical as they do gritty. Thank you for witnessing me and allowing me to witness you.