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Winter 2020/21 - Light in The Darkness

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  So I can't quite believe that we've got to January 2021 already!  I'm not quite sure where 2020 has gone. Amongst the chaos of the pandemic and all the changes it brought it flew by, the last part of last year certainly went very quickly and I had the honour of conducting my first of many funeral services.  And Interestingly as sad as they were I've really enjoyed doing this work. I was discussing this with to a lovely lady called Rosie who became my mentor, a colleague I suppose, who also does weddings and funerals and we were saying how like a wedding a funeral is in the sense of holding a safe sacred space for people during something so important in their life. The difference being that at a wedding ceremony, most of it is happy but there's usually a little sadness that someone special is missing, a parent or beloved grandparent  and with a funeral it's obviously sad, but  there are still smiles and a sense of joy - perhaps relief that they'r...
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Summer 2020 - New Beginnings

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So this year has certainly been one with a difference hasn't it? After nearly two decades of working in the health and social care sector, last year was a real year of change for me. Early in 2019, as well working full time in my old role, I also became a wedding registrar for the local authority and enjoyed it so much I knew that the course of my life would change, becoming a wedding celebrant was a natural progression from there and after spending a lot of time with my lovely father in law as he was dying, I realised I wanted to train to deliver end of life ceremonies and help people celebrate the lives of their loved ones in whatever unique and personal way they chose. Drawing on my experience of wedding ceremonies and of running several local community and spiritual groups I felt that I could draw on a deep well of experience, diversity, understanding and gently but firmly hold a safe, sacred space  to enable me to deliver a ceremony either traditional or more be...
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