About: Transitions

About: Transitions

After death, taxes and breathing, change is one of life’s constants. The big changes can be called transitions, moments when life so significantly, in either direction; uplifting or saddening experiences. However they arrive, transitions will always disrupt...
Healing a Broken Heart

Healing a Broken Heart

There has always been a raft of ideas and beliefs surrounding how we (do, ought or should) fit into the world or the culture we live in. Ideas that together bring both security, as they provide guidelines that confirm the place we occupy, and clarity about who we are...
About Being a Funeral Celebrant

About Being a Funeral Celebrant

Telling people I’m a Funeral Celebrant is interesting. Some are fascinated. Some are horrified. And think it morbid. They just see it as dealing with the dead. In fact, it is the exact opposite. My work is to acknowledge, represent and celebrate the life of a person...
Why I became a funeral celebrant

Why I became a funeral celebrant

Benn Abdy-Collins explains the route he took – and what motivated him My why began whilst I was mentally preparing for my mum’s death from cancer; known to be soon, just not when. Mum had just stopped breathing when I entered her room and I felt her carotid pulse its...