The Importance of Ceremony: How it connects, comforts & equips us for our life journey
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Since time immemorial, people have come together to mark significant life transitions through ceremony and ritual. In today’s fast-paced, diverse and more secular society, many age-old traditions honouring life’s important thresholds have been abandoned. Those occasions that we do gather on – such as baby showers, graduations, weddings, and funerals – are often impersonal and lacking depth.
And yet we continue to crave the meaning-making, connection, and community that a thoughtfully planned and conducted ceremony can offer us.
Benefits of ceremony
Ceremony comforts those who are grieving, and offers sustenance to those who are in transition. Ceremony strengthens communities while honouring important beginnings and hard-won endings. Put simply, ceremony can be transformative. I love working with people who want to pause in order to reflect, honour and celebrate life’s many milestones.
Done well, ritual and ceremony move you through a gateway from one chapter of your life to the next. The skillfully integrated music, readings, story, symbolism and choreography of good ceremony have the effect of integrating the transition in our lives and equipping us for the next stage of our journey.
Every life, every love, and every milestone has a singular story to tell.
I would love to bring your story alive through meaningful ceremony.
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AUTHOR: KARLA COMBRES
As a Legacy Guide & Celebrant, I help individuals, couples, families and organizations make the big and small moments in life count, and shape their legacy along the way. I offer:
Drawing on my vast experience as a Life-Cycle Celebrant and in working with people at the end of life, I am uniquely qualified to help people move through transitions meaningfully and to think about how they want to leave this world so they can live better now.
I’m based in Saskatchewan, Canada and serve clients worldwide. Read more about me here.
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