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Heartfelt Celebrant Ceremonies, Durham (2025)

14/12/2023

A beautiful poem today from a wife in dedication to her husband at his funeral service.....

"Goodnight My Darling
“Goodnight my darling, I’ll see you tomorrow”
That is what we always said
As the night swallowed day and the moon made its way
To the darkening sky overhead

But one day my whole world was darkened
As tomorrow for you never came
And so now when I wake, there is only an ache
As I know I won’t see you again

And it’s hard to explain feeling empty
And yet so full of pain all at once
Like a door that’s been closed, yet left open, exposed
Like a spotlight on something that’s gone

And the thoughts of tomorrow are too much
So I’ve come for a walk on my own
And I’m breathing in now, like I’m just learning how
Asking why must I do this alone?

Then I realise that you are beside me
You’re the wind as it kisses my hair
You’re the birds and the flowers, the fresh April showers,
The leaves as they dance through the air

You are everything I can see life in
Like the feathers I find on the ground
And I suddenly see that the world beside me
Is where whispers of you can be found

So I’ll look out for signs that you’re with me
And in time they might lessen the sorrow
And as night swallows day, listen – you’ll hear me say
“Goodnight darling, I’ll see you tomorrow”

By Becky Hemsley

05/09/2022

The Celebrant's Role during a Family visit....

To be able to walk with people at such a tender and challenging time is indeed a great privilege – they are putting their trust in a complete stranger to walk alongside them and lead them through the confusion of grief and loss – whilst at the same time having to arrange a ceremony within a time frame – when time for them can have little or no meaning.

Often people will open up and share their innermost feelings and emotions very quickly and easily – and sometimes that is very difficult for them to do.

Deep listening and holding skills are always required to ensure that the family feel safe in the hands of the celebrant to deliver the ceremony that is needed.

When people are dealing with loss through bereavement, many different emotions and reactions can surface including: Anger, tears, silence, avoidance, confusion, guilt, denial, relief, despair, illness, tiredness, shock, love.

These states of being can change day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment. All are normal in the process and experience of grief – there is nothing to fix, or change or make right or wrong. Acceptance and allowance of where a person is in any moment is the most important thing.

A Celebrant is often chosen for you by your Funeral Director, but know that you can choose your own celebrant through recommendation or seeing them perform another funeral.

The choice is always yours and the Celebrant you choose will then work very closely with your Funeral Director to ensure your loved one gets the service that both honours the departed loved one and holds space and comfort for all those in attendance.....

04/09/2022

Welcome and thank you for taking the time to see what my new page is all about. I'm Havi and I hope that this page will find its way to those who can benefit most from what I'm here to do.

After graduating from the Celebrant Academy, I was able to combine my skills as a Life Coach, Counsellor and a long term volunteer Samaritan (national su***de helpline) to create heartfelt ceremonies for the families I've been privileged to work with.

In truth anyone can write a eulogy, but being trained in the art of creating ceremony is all together a different thing.
As a celebrant getting to know who the loved one was and being able to pull out the essence of who they truly were is perhaps where my skills lie.

To be able to sit and hold that safe space for a family during what can often be the worst of times is both an honour and brings true depth to the notion of being of service.

I create ceremony for funerals, be it religious, spiritual or those of completely no faith and each one will be both a remembrance and a celebration of who they were.

A good service will be a good service, but a heartfelt, authentic ceremony will be remembered because it will uplift, invoke moments of joy and often laughter amidst the sadness. Most importantly though, it will begin the journey of healing that often only begins after the funeral service.

A good service will, I say again, be a good service but a service that both truly honours the life of the one who has passed and brings comfort to those left behind is a different thing altogether.
Many celebrants also focus on weddings, I will certainly do weddings, but they are for those who perhaps want something a little different.

However, my focus is directed more towards the growing need for divorce ceremonies where the marriage cycle can be gently and lovingly closed off as this is definitely becoming much more the need of our times. Closing the chapter with respect and dignity before moving onto pastures new.

I also do fur family bereavement ceremonies, because let's face it these beautiful animals that share our homes and our hearts are so very deserving of a send off that in some small way begins to help those they leave behind.

Whatever your needs may be, ceremony can be created for any major life event and it would be my honour to be there to gently walk you through it..... 💕

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