Surviving (and Maybe Even Thriving) the Holidays:A Love-Centred Guide to Christmas, Family, and Keeping Your Sanity Ahhh, the festive season. Twinkly lights. Full calendars. Too much food. Too little sleep. Big love, big feelings… and sometimes big explosions. The holidays have a funny way of amplifying everything. The joy [...]
WHICH WAY TO GO? WHEN YOU’RE GONE, BUT YOUR BODY IS STILL HERE A summary of current and emerging funeral options when your body has died and the environmental considerations and legacy. By Sarah Tolmie, Community Funeral Director, Holistic Celebrant and End-of-Life Consultant with Picaluna Funerals. One of the first [...]
Grief as Sacred Work: A Soulful Invitation to HealingBy Sarah Tolmie Dearly Beloved, Grief is not a mistake. It is not a mental illness or a personal failure. It is not something to be fixed, cured, or hustled through. It is sacred work — soul work — and in [...]
After Ryans private home farewell a larger community memorial was held at his parent's in-law property - complete with pizza van and beers. Not many of us die unexpectedly. In fact, for the most part, our deaths are like a slow train coming and we experience a [...]
On the Coast #55+ - May/June 2020 Well hasn’t life and love changed over the last few months? With the COVID-19 global pandemic our world will never be the same again. The individual and collective grief and losses are too many and too painful to inventory fully – death, [...]
On the Coast – 55+ (July/August 2020 Issue) The experience of COVID-19 has taught us many things about family, the importance of relationships and our home habits. Months of lockdown brought intense scrutiny and focus on the minutia of our domestic environment and skills, and for many of us, [...]
