Author: Cindy

It has been a while, for which I apologise but I wanted to write about loss and I find that quite difficult. Dignity in death One of the privileges of being a doula is that you walk beside someone who is taking their final journey and it never ceases to amaze me how dignified that READ MORE

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 someone who is dying. I trained as an end-of-life doula a few years ago and since then I have sought to support families and individuals during the READ MORE

A month in and the diary is starting to fill with weddings for this Spring and Summer.  It feels as though there is a little more restraint these days.  People are being careful with their health, their friendships and their money and the weddings that I have been asked to write and deliver are very READ MORE

At the risk of being repetitive, how many times have we heard that you cannot pour from an empty cup? Every time you open a newspaper there is an image of someone bereft of the strength to continue, blank eyed and exhausted. We all know that we must eat well, sleep and exercise to maintain READ MORE

So, finally there is a chink of light at the end of a long tunnel and we can start to plan for weddings later this year. Dreaming and planning I have been keeping my couples ticking along, asking them to think about how they might like their wedding day to look. Most of them have READ MORE

I am sorry if that sounds rude, I don’t wish to cause offence but families are so complex and convoluted sometimes and negotiating your way through half truths and tricky situations can be a minefield. It is both the privilege and the curse of a Celebrant to hear the stories and try to make sense READ MORE