Merryn Tenalach

13/11/2025

✨ Winter Solstice at Soulton Long Barrow ✨

As the year turns and the light begins its gentle return, we invite you to join us for a soulful afternoon of story, song, and stillness at Soulton Long Barrow.

📅 Saturday 20th December
⏰ Barrow opens: 2.30pm | Event starts: 3pm

We’ll be joined by two extraordinary artists:
🌿 Danielle Free - storyteller and Celtic scholar, whose solstice tales are as enchanting as they are immersive.
🎶 Elin Gittins - singing solo in Welsh and English folk songs, guiding us gently into shared song and reflection.

With any luck, the winter sky will gift us an epic sunset streaming through the barrow’s stained glass, a rare and precious moment to mark the turning of the seasons. From there, we’ll carry the warmth over to Soulton Court, where mince pies, hot drinks, and good company await.

These gatherings within the barrow are truly special - a chance to pause, connect, and honour the rhythms of the year together.

Tickets are limited - book your place now and step into the magic of the Solstice: www.merryntenalach.com/merrynevents (link in bio)

09/11/2025

Tomorrow is Telford grief cafe. I’m having a procedure at the hospital so my friend, Liz, will be holding it on my behalf. She’s wonderful and I trust her with my precious grief cafe. Do come along and have your grief heard, witnessed and share in the energy of conversations about grief, death and dying being shared openly.

07/11/2025

GUIDED marked a turning point, in my life, in my work, in everything I create. And the messages I’ve received from readers who’ve journeyed through its pages have been nothing short of soul-stirring.

I’m so excited to share that my shelves are restocked — 100 fresh copies ready to find their new homes.

This is the book for the ones in your life who are longing for connection, for purpose, for something deeper than the way things have always been. Let’s do this.

Click the link in my bio to make your purchase ❤️

06/11/2025

I mentioned in an online platform that I’d love to do more stage talks, sharing my wisdom, my words, in a more formal setting. I’m good at it. I don’t get stage fright, it just feels natural.

Someone then contacted me personally to say they had created an image of me on the stage to help me market my talks to the world.

What a sweetie! I was so grateful for the gesture.

They picked a beautiful image of me. My favourite colours and season. They then put them together to create this. Maybe it’s the inner youth performer in me, all I can see is ‘Punch and Judy’ when I see those red curtains.

What do you think? Would you hire me for a talk? A book reading? 🫣

04/11/2025

The perfect Autumn/Winter read.

Imagine this:

Rain on the window, a candle flickering, and a book that feels like ceremony itself. GUIDED is a companion for the soul.

Tender. Grounding. Full of quiet magic.

03/11/2025

I’m writing it here. Sharing it with you all. I will reach my 200 book sale goal by the end of 2025!!

That’s 100 books to sell over the next two months!

Guided: Ritual and Ceremony for Women written by me, Merryn Tenalach ❤️

Add it to your wish list, tell your families, buy it for your daughter, your sisters, your friends…

‘Such a beautiful, powerful book! In a time when many of us lost connection with eachother and with ancestral knowledge and rites of passage rituals, Merryn’s book brings not only opportunities to learn about old traditions, but also practical things we can all do when preparing or going through various stages in our lives.’

❤️

01/11/2025

I'm very excited to announce that, as part of the 'Warm Welcome' initiative, I am able to offer a handful of free grief tending sessions in January and February within 'The Pod' at Shrewsbury Library.

'Warm Welcome' is a community program that turns libraries into free, safe, and warm spaces during winter months, to help people cope with the cost of living offering additional resources like free hot drinks and activities to combat loneliness and improve wellbeing.

If you would like to book a session, you can contact the library directly, they are managing the bookings. Over an 8 week period I have 16 sessions available

01/11/2025

If you believe in the work that I do, now is the time.

If I have supported you in the past and you're able to give, now is the time.

If you've worked with me and you have first hand experience of how incredible it is to be truly held and witnessed in your grief, now is the time.

If I've held ceremony for you, your family or your community and you know how valuable this work is, now is the time.

If I am able to raise these funds, I am able to take the financial pressure off myself (as I've personally been funding all of the work of the CIC up until this point).

A donation, no matter how big or small, everything is SO gratefully received

We long to deepen our grief tending, training open-hearted volunteers and offering gentle, subsidised 1:1 support for those walking with sorrow.