Life Transition Ceremonies
A unique, customized ceremony can help ease the stress of a life transition or acknowledge feelings of gratitude, accomplishment, and delight in a life celebration.
A resource by Rites of Passage, LLC
At Rites of Passage, we work with you to design personalized and meaningful ceremonies to mark your unique life events. We welcome those with a secular or spiritual worldview, as well as those who identify with a faith tradition. Some of the life events we can help you mark include:
Celebrations:
- Renewals of Vows
- Weddings
- Pet Blessings
- House Blessings
- Pregnancy Blessings
- Baby Dedications and Naming Ceremonies
- Sobriety Anniversary Celebrations
- Family Celebrations and Holiday Rituals
Transitions:
- Coming-of-Age Rituals
- Leave-Taking Rituals for Moving and Retirement
- Blessings for Military Deployment and Homecoming
- Coming Out or Gender Identity Rituals
- Naming Ceremonies for Renaming or Reclaiming
- Divorce Rituals
- Living Wakes
Healing:
- Funerals, Memorials, and Celebrations of Life
- Healing Rituals for Illness, Surgery, Trauma, or Loss
- Forgiveness and Letting-Go Rituals
- Miscarriage and Stillbirth Remembrances
- Death Anniversaries
- Pet Memorials
- Creating New Family Traditions
All of our Life Transition Ceremonies are designed with your input and your unique values, traditions, dreams, and guiding principles in mind.
E-mail us for more information about any of these ceremonies and rituals or to discuss designing a ceremony for your unique life event. You can also schedule a free 30-minute introductory call.
My Inspiration
Kristabeth Atwood, M.Div is a Pastor for People Who Don't Do Church and the founder of Rites of Passage, LLC. A church pastor for 18 years, Kristabeth now brings her pastor's heart to help people of all identities and spiritual and secular world views through the spiritual, emotional, and practical aspects of change by offering:
– care for those facing life's changes,
– education on the transformative power of change,
– support for exploring life's big questions, and
– personalized rituals to mark life’s transitions.
Kristabeth holds space for people to connect with themselves, those around them, and with the sacred, whatever that means to them. She feels privileged to help people honor and mark the meaningful moments that encompass all the seasons of life – from birth to death.
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