Rituals Are For Everyone (#044)

Ritual Is for Everyone: Ceremony, Grief, and the Moments We Forget to Mark

What if the moments we grieve most quietly are the ones most deserving of ceremony?

Maria sits down with Megan Sheldon, founder of BeCeremonial and one of the most thoughtful voices working at the intersection of ritual, grief, and what it means to be human. 

Megan is a cultural mythologist, humanist celebrant, and end-of-life doula based in BC. They discuss how Megan found her way to this work from a young age, what it felt like to experience recurrent pregnancy loss without any ritual framework to hold it, and how those invisible moments of change became the heartbeat of everything Be Ceremonial is built on. 

They also dig into what it means to approach grief and ceremony outside of religious tradition, and why secular ritual might be one of the most important things we're collectively missing.

Upcoming Events & Workshops

• End-of-Life Planning Process
• Ceremonial Training: The Elements of Ritual
• Pregnancy Loss Ritual

 Bonus Resources

• Scottish Paganism
• Homicide loss and grief
• Cumulative Grief
• Jessie Harold – The Becoming Podcast with Megan Sheldon
•  Grief in North America, a death-denying society

 

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