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February 19, 2018 By John Welsh

Rituals can Heal

Rituals bring people together at a time of tumultuous change (wedding, baby, retirement, death) to bear witness to this change and to begin the new steps in a new direction of life which helps make that journey easier.

Rituals:

  • Reviewing photos and old letters
  • Lighting candles
  • Creating a collage of your life together
  • Mementos—giving some away or choosing some for yourself
  • Planting a tree or bush
  • Donating a park bench
  • Getting involved in a cause (related to the person in some way)
  • Moving wedding rings to other hand, or redesigning them
  • Creating an annual activity/event in honour/memory of loved one (fishing derby, golf, movie watching, dinner at a certain restaurant, attend a concert etc.)
  • Creating a scholarship in the loved one’s name
  • Creating a quilt or pillow out of treasured fabric
  • Collecting stories about the loved one from friends
  • Sweat lodge
  • Using helium balloons, doves in the ceremony
  • Wake, celebration of life, funeral service
  • Sending flowers or donations
  • Wearing the clothing or jewelry of the loved one
  • Visiting the cemetery or where ashes were scattered

Joy shared is joy doubled… grief shared is grief halved.

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