Daisy Ceremonies

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-green-goodbye/202305/beauty-and-grief-the-artists-of-green-burial

Beauty and Grief: The Artists of Green Burial Who they are, what they do, and how they help.

When someone has gone,
you can bring them back
for just a little while
by talking them into life
by painting a picture with your memories and your words
breathing their essence back into existence
for just a few moments.

When someone has gone
you can see them again
for a minute or two
by being all the things they once were
by allowing their best traits to filter through you
shaping your words, your thoughts and your deeds
back out into this world.

When someone has gone
you can feel them again
for just a moment
by playing their music
and singing their favourite songs
by giving yourself up to the notes that brought them alive
once upon a time, it will again.

When someone has gone
you can keep a part of them alive
by giving the love you had for them a forever place in your life
a forever seat at your table and a glorious chapter in your book.

Stories never die
tell them.

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Beautiful art by
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What is an End-of-Life Doula? - Family and Funeral Celebrant in Hampshire Some of you will be familiar with birth doulas, they support a mother during the intimate process of giving birth. An end-of-life doula does the same but for

Here's why you don’t need to embalm – Talking Death – Poppy's Funerals Roughly half of us will be embalmed, even though there’s no legal or hygienic reason why we should be. Here’s what embalming really involves and why we prefer a natural approach.

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The world's first underwater burial site - BBC Reel The Neptune Memorial Reef, located off the coast of Key Biscayne in Florida, is the world’s first underwater cemetery. The eco-friendly memorial site is designed to look like a sunken city, modelled after the Lost City of Atlantis. This unique artificial reef is currently the resting place for the...

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Awareness Act

NOBODY TOLD ME

Nobody told me,
how often I would see your face,
then blink and see another instead.

Nobody told me,
that trying to recall the exact sound of your laugh,
would keep me awake at night.

Nobody told me,
that I would reach for my phone so often,
to heartbreakingly put it back down again.

Nobody told me,
that you were my moon and my sun,
my reason and my way,
my morning and my night.

Nobody told me,
that your life would feel like a movie I made up in my head,
that I would seek out others who had seen it too,
just to feel you there for a moment.

Nobody told me that food would lose taste,
that air would lack oxygen,
that I would miss you,
this much.

I miss you,
this much.
Nobody told me.

Donna Ashworth
From ‘I wish I knew’: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785303791/ref=cm_sw_r_em_api_glt_i_N03WKA1WA8KR4GTRMTG5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Art by Joy Simon (mindful art studio)

My partner died. Then my brother. Here’s what not to say to someone who is grieving In an effort to help – and to protect themselves – people try to shrink the loss with empty platitudes. But that can make grief even more painful

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MOTHER’S DAY WITHOUT HER

For many, Mother’s Day is one to be avoided, to dread, to rage at.
But consider this.
If you have a mother in heaven, who you miss so much that this day burns like fire, then you have been blessed.
So many do not know this.
So many do not understand a love so deeply bonding, that the grief is beyond comprehension.
And consider this also.
If your mother is no longer with you on this mortal coil, do not, for a moment, believe that she is gone.
That you are without her.
For that is not possible.
She beats with your every heartbeat.
She breathes with your every gasp.
She is coded into your every cell.
That cannot be undone.

Perhaps, perhaps, you could begin to celebrate, on Mother’s Day, and every day, that you were gifted a mother like yours.

And instead of avoiding this day, perhaps, perhaps, you could embrace it again and invite her to be with you, again.
Remembering, as you did on earth, how blessed you were.

Perhaps, perhaps, this day could become a sweet one once more, as you do all the things you know she loved on earth. For her.

For many, Mother’s Day is one to be avoided but I wonder if maybe that could change.
I wonder if she is waiting for that.

Perhaps she is waiting for that.

Donna Ashworth
‘To the women’ https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08LRGWY74/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_QXYBP1XQNKBHB07D6QHC

ART BY Claudia Tremblay

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Prolonged Grief Disorder Is Now an Officially Recognized Mental Illness People with prolonged grief experience "intense longings for the deceased" that last longer than typical grief and impede their lives.

Why We Will Never Get Over It Why We Will Never Get Over It by Angela Miller Unfortunately bereaved parents get judged often. By those who know us and by those who don’t. We are often criticized and pathologized for grieving (for remembering our child.) People erroneously think we are stuck, depressed, and/or clinically-someth...

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'Cool rooms' help parents cope with loss of child - report Cool rooms give bereaved families time to be with a child for a few days after their death.

How to cope with Mothers Day after your mother has died

How to cope with Mother's Day after your mum has died | Winston's Wish Young people whose mum has died share what they like to do on Mother's Day and their advice to other bereaved young people.

Via Katy Costello, Soul Midwife and funeral celebrant

‘I have never been to a celebrant led funeral before, it was bloody marvellous!!’ 😆🙏🏼🥰

Said to me by a gentleman at a service last week who was used to funerals conducted by a person of the church. This gentleman has changed his mind about the kind of send off he would like because he has realised how different and individual you can make your service. You don’t have to do what a funeral director tells you and you can do things as YOU wish to do them. Did you know you can do whatever you like for a celebration of life? 🕯

Having a celebrant to officiate a funeral allows for personality, character and heart. It allows for freedom, choice and uniqueness. You can also have a funeral service ANYWHERE, with or without the deceased present I might add 🙏🏼

A celebrant led service will always be a personal and heart felt one. It will always allow you the opportunity to create a loving space and to share all about the one you love in a way that is most authentic to them, and to you 💫

A celebrant as your host at a funeral/celebration of life/memorial can include religious elements if you wish. We can read prayer or scripture for example just the same as you may do at a service of a specific faith if you so wish 🕯

A celebrant works with you to write a loving script, tell your stories and finds the perfect words for you and your family. We don’t follow a set script, we create a new one each time for the souls we are saying farewell to. We do them justice, we get to know them, and you, and make sure the service is unique and exclusive to them 💫

A celebrant can be as traditional or as unorthodox as you wish. A funeral service can be as loud or as subtle as you want or need it to be. A memorial can have no songs or 10 songs if that’s what you want. You can have no other speakers or have everyone speak, the choice really is yours 🙏🏼 A crematorium service will limit you with time, but what you do in that time is still your choice.

If you have questions about using a celebrant please do get in touch 💫

We don’t know what we don’t know after all 🤷🏻‍♀️❤️

End-of-life conversations can be hard, but your loved ones will thank you Broaching these conversations can be awkward or unnerving, but it doesn’t have to be. Death is a natural and inevitable part of life.

If you are recently bereaved, you could qualify for some financial help from the government
https://www.gov.uk/bereavement-support-payment

Bereavement Support Payment Bereavement Support Payment is money you can get if your husband, wife or civil partner dies - eligibility, what you'll get, how to claim.

This is a brilliant idea!!

Funerals don’t have to have a traditional Order of Service booklet. Today’s alternative encouraged everyone to keep Niki in their lives in the sweetest possible way.

FEATHERS 🪶❤️
By Donna Ashworth

I left you a little white feather
I placed it right there in your way
I wrapped it in love with a message
to let you know you’ll be okay

I drew you a colourful rainbow
It followed your car for a while
I made it a beautiful rainbow
I hoped it would show me your smile

I flew down a beautiful robin
It landed right there on your ledge
I prayed he would give you the strength
to push yourself back from the edge

I try every day to remind you
that I never did go away
the feathers, the rainbows, the robins
are my way of trying to stay.

Feathers by Donna Ashworth
(poetry books on amazon)

ART ‘feathers from above’ by Pearl Ida Chen

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