Daisy Ceremonies

03/06/2023

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-green-goodbye/202305/beauty-and-grief-the-artists-of-green-burial

Who they are, what they do, and how they help.

05/02/2023

08/05/2022

When someone has gone,
you can bring them back
for just a little while
by talking them into life
by painting a picture with your memories and your words
breathing their essence back into existence
for just a few moments.

When someone has gone
you can see them again
for a minute or two
by being all the things they once were
by allowing their best traits to filter through you
shaping your words, your thoughts and your deeds
back out into this world.

When someone has gone
you can feel them again
for just a moment
by playing their music
and singing their favourite songs
by giving yourself up to the notes that brought them alive
once upon a time, it will again.

When someone has gone
you can keep a part of them alive
by giving the love you had for them a forever place in your life
a forever seat at your table and a glorious chapter in your book.

Stories never die
tell them.

From ‘I Wish I Knew’ https://amzn.to/3JVMJlZ

Beautiful art by
Phyllis Harris Design

24/04/2022

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22/04/2022

https://blog.theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com/gfl-study-losing-dog/?utm_source=bcglp-animals&utm_medium=social-fb&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=gfl-study-losing-dog&utm_term=8824797

It's because they're family.

21/04/2022

17/04/2022

Grieving a difficult relationship is complicated. The more people talk about how normal this is, the more normal it becomes.

08/04/2022

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

07/04/2022

Roughly half of us will be embalmed, even though there’s no legal or hygienic reason why we should be. Here’s what embalming really involves and why we prefer a natural approach.

03/04/2022

https://www.bbc.com/reel/playlist/forward-thinking?vpid=p0by4stg

The Neptune Memorial Reef, located off the coast of Key Biscayne in Florida, is the world’s first underwater cemetery. The eco-friendly memorial site is designed to look like a sunken city, modelled after the Lost City of Atlantis. This unique artificial reef is currently the resting place for the...

01/04/2022

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31/03/2022

Awareness Act

29/03/2022

NOBODY TOLD ME

Nobody told me,
how often I would see your face,
then blink and see another instead.

Nobody told me,
that trying to recall the exact sound of your laugh,
would keep me awake at night.

Nobody told me,
that I would reach for my phone so often,
to heartbreakingly put it back down again.

Nobody told me,
that you were my moon and my sun,
my reason and my way,
my morning and my night.

Nobody told me,
that your life would feel like a movie I made up in my head,
that I would seek out others who had seen it too,
just to feel you there for a moment.

Nobody told me that food would lose taste,
that air would lack oxygen,
that I would miss you,
this much.

I miss you,
this much.
Nobody told me.

Donna Ashworth
From ‘I wish I knew’: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785303791/ref=cm_sw_r_em_api_glt_i_N03WKA1WA8KR4GTRMTG5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Art by Joy Simon (mindful art studio)

28/03/2022

In an effort to help – and to protect themselves – people try to shrink the loss with empty platitudes. But that can make grief even more painful

26/03/2022

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MOTHER’S DAY WITHOUT HER

For many, Mother’s Day is one to be avoided, to dread, to rage at.
But consider this.
If you have a mother in heaven, who you miss so much that this day burns like fire, then you have been blessed.
So many do not know this.
So many do not understand a love so deeply bonding, that the grief is beyond comprehension.
And consider this also.
If your mother is no longer with you on this mortal coil, do not, for a moment, believe that she is gone.
That you are without her.
For that is not possible.
She beats with your every heartbeat.
She breathes with your every gasp.
She is coded into your every cell.
That cannot be undone.

Perhaps, perhaps, you could begin to celebrate, on Mother’s Day, and every day, that you were gifted a mother like yours.

And instead of avoiding this day, perhaps, perhaps, you could embrace it again and invite her to be with you, again.
Remembering, as you did on earth, how blessed you were.

Perhaps, perhaps, this day could become a sweet one once more, as you do all the things you know she loved on earth. For her.

For many, Mother’s Day is one to be avoided but I wonder if maybe that could change.
I wonder if she is waiting for that.

Perhaps she is waiting for that.

Donna Ashworth
‘To the women’ https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08LRGWY74/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_QXYBP1XQNKBHB07D6QHC

ART BY Claudia Tremblay

19/03/2022

https://gizmodo.com/prolonged-grief-disorder-is-now-an-officially-recognize-1848674239

People with prolonged grief experience "intense longings for the deceased" that last longer than typical grief and impede their lives.