30 Jun 2024 | Healing

Doing the Repair Work

When I witnessed a highly polarised and conflicted situation being met with love and compassion, I had to watch it again. In a group that was struggling, Aya Caspi, NVC trainer and facilitator spoke and brought people into a place of connection and shared agreement. Her presence and clarity was…

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25 Jun 2024 | Healing

Fearing Paris

Last night in our online Celebrating This Precious Life session we discussed what it is to meet our fears around death and dying. What are some of these fears? Fear of…. suffering physical and emotional pain, fear of dying alone, fear of my partner or child dying first and the pain…

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06 Jun 2024 | Healing

Loving Kindness

Every morning after waking and before I get out of bed I place my hands over my heart and lie there in the stillness. Not doing anything, just being with love. “Loving-kindness is about connection, an offering of unconditional love for ourselves and others. In this, we are not trying…

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18 May 2024 | Funerals, Death and Dying, End of Life Planning

Estranged and Together Again

I was contacted by a family member who had been estranged from their younger sibling for over fifty years until just a few months before they died from a terminal illness. No-one else in the family wanted a ceremony but this sibling and their partner really did. I visited the…

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28 Feb 2024 | Ceremonies

Celebrating Life

Join me for transformative gatherings: Mourning and Celebration Circles “I was so impressed with Wendy’s facilitation of the mourning and celebration circle that I recently joined. She set such a loving tone, while simultaneously creating a container for authenticity and connection.” Tamara Staton — USA Online Circle Tuesday 5th March…

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31 Jan 2024 | Funerals, Death and Dying, End of Life Planning

Grief and Love are Sisters

Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for what we once held close. Frances Weller The Mourning and Celebration Circles…

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31 Dec 2023 | Ceremonies

Kindness and Peace for 2024

May you have peace, kindness and joy in your life. May you live with curiosity and mindful presence, Friendliness and deep listening Towards your own self and others. May you embrace the celebration and mourning That is present as you breathe each day. May you have what you need to…

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22 Jul 2023 | Ceremonies

Life’s Prayer

Life’s Prayer… calling you home. Often I will craft a special poem or blessing for a family when they are seeking special words that really speak to them of their beloved who has died. I met with the family of the late Shane Webster and they were looking for a…

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15 Nov 2022 | Healing

Upon Waking

Being Wendy Mindfulness—awareness of the present moment, without judgement. A foundational way of meeting ourselves in all our fullness, colours, stories, feelings, sensations. Our body. Our breath. That quiet moment between sleeping and waking, before the thoughts cloud the empty space of being. Before the list of things to do takes…

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01 Nov 2022 | Funerals, Death and Dying, End of Life Planning

The Well of Grief by David Whyte

The Well of Grief Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief, turning down through its black water to the place we cannot breathe, will never know the source from which we drink, the secret water, cold and clear, nor find in the darkness…

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