Wellbeing Rituals

A ritual is a small ceremony you give yourself that, when repeated, can alter your internal state of being. It has a beginning and an end. It asks nothing of you but the time it takes.

I started making these for myself.

Not as a business idea, and not because I had anything worked out. I was somewhere in the middle of becoming a mother, and at the same time my body had quietly started changing in ways nobody had thought to warn me about, and I kept reaching around for something to hold onto and finding advice where I wanted ceremony.

There is so much advice. There is almost nothing that says: this is real, and it deserves to be marked.

That is most of what I think we are missing. The month you spent running on empty. The loss nobody else knew about. The threshold you walked over on an ordinary Tuesday, on your own, without anyone telling you it even had a name.

A ritual is how I mark those now. A small, deliberate act, with a beginning and an ending and something tender in the middle. It is not one more thing to do. It is the part of the day where nothing at all is being asked of you.

Every ritual I write moves through the same four steps: Arrive, Tend, Speak, Close. A deliberate beginning, an act of care, one thing said out loud, and a real ending.

They are short, and they are made to be done in ten minutes, badly, on a day when you have nothing left to give. That is the kind of day I wrote them for.

Love Her Guided Rituals

These rituals are our free gift to you, for whenever you need them.

I often find that I am most in need of a ritual when I am trying to find some sense of meaning or purpose in my life. These are the very ones I turn to myself, to make time for me. To be here, in the present moment. To practise awareness, to savour, to love.

They ask for presence and intention, and nothing else. They are for all the women who are looking for something more and don’t quite know where to find it. A good place to start is to go within.

• The Holding — five minutes, for when you are the one holding everything.
• The Landing — a bedtime ritual, for a mind that will not stop.
• Beginning Again — a new moon ritual, for planting something in the dark.
• The Releasing — a full moon ritual, for whatever you are ready to stop carrying.

The rituals inside the gift sets

Every gift set has a ritual card tucked inside it, and on the card is a QR code that opens the full ritual for the season she is in.

I write those ones long, because there is more to say. There is the ritual itself, and then how to come back to it. Weekly, or on the anniversary, or on one of those days that arrives without any warning at all. There are words for the people who love her and have no idea what to say to her. And there are real Australian services listed at the end, for the days when a ritual is not enough on its own. I never wanted anyone to reach the bottom of one of these and find nothing waiting for her there.

Those rituals are not published here. They belong to the woman holding the box. It mattered to me that the ritual be part of the gift rather than an advertisement for it.

• The Softening — for the days you are expected to push through · Period Pain Support Set
• The Setting Down — for putting down what was never yours to carry · Burnout Support Set
• The Turning — for a threshold no one prepared you for · Peri/Menopause Support Set
• The Keeping — for grief that has no end date · Grief Support Set
• The Witnessing — for a loss the world did not see · Miscarriage Support Set
• Forever Counted — for a child who will always be counted · Stillbirth Support Set
• Matrescence — for the woman becoming a mother. In the making.

If someone has given you one of our sets, the QR code on your ritual card will take you straight to yours.

What is still coming

There will be more rituals and content to support you, updated regularly. Including:

• Guided meditations
• Women’s circles, both in person and online
• More free rituals
• If you would like to know when the next support product lands, you can join the collective mailing list below.

And if one of these helps you, please pass it on to a woman who needs it. That is how they find the people they were written for.