Be Ceremonial, North Vancouver, BC (2026)

03/21/2026

🌸This morning, and I gathered our Year of Seasonal Community to welcome in the Spring Equinox together — and it was pure magic.

We talked about the symbols we carry for this time of year, and the stories stored inside them. We explored ways to bring ritual into both the visible and invisible moments of seasonal change. 🌿

We talked about kairos time — the idea that meaningful moments arrive on their own schedule, not the calendar’s — and the power of retroactive rituals when we miss one. 🕰️

For our opening ritual, each of us held a piece of ice with a springtime symbol frozen inside. As the ice melted in our hands, spring literally emerged ~ from grass 🌱 to rosebuds 🌹, shed deer antlers 🦌 to antihistamines 😅 (because spring is also THAT).

We each added a word or wish to the melt water. I burned the paper (I was craving 🔥 energy) and added the ashes to the water, then poured it at the base of the plum tree in our garden. A full circle moment.

What stays with me today is how much we need this — gathering with intention, sharing what we’re carrying, and being reminded that we don’t have to hold it alone. 🤍

Community is the antidote to the isolation and worry so many of us are sitting with right now.

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03/10/2026

~ Friendship Rituals ~

We celebrate romantic milestones — first dates, engagements, anniversaries — but what about the friendships that carry us through all of it?

💛 We don't mark the moment two people become close. We rarely acknowledge when a friendship shifts, evolves, or ends. And yet these relationships sustain us through heartbreak, career changes, moves, and every season of life.

That's exactly what Kate and I are exploring in our upcoming 2-hour interactive workshop on Sunday, April 12th — Friendship Rituals: Honouring the Friendships That Sustain Us.

From how a friendship begins, to the milestones you share, to the shifts and the endings… there are so many opportunities to weave ritual and intention into these bonds.

🕯️ Watch this clip from our recent conversation (free in the Be Ceremonial App) where we talk about why our friendships deserve ceremony too.

👇 Tell us: what rituals do you have with your friends?

Comment below for a chance to win a free spot at the workshop — winner announced March 31st via DM!

🔗 Link in bio to register ($30) or learn more.

03/10/2026

Last night felt like a full circle moment. ✨

Years ago, my mentor and dear friend Madeline Shaw invited me to a coming-of-age brainstorm session — a vision being dreamed into the world. That dream became G Day for Girls — a rite of passage event that eventually reached thousands of girls and gender-nonbinary youth across Canada.

When the pandemic forced G Day to close, Madeleine passed the torch (and her charitable status ~ a true act of sisterhood!) to Fire & Flower. The founder, Elisa, had been creating 6-month rites of passage journeys for girls and nonbinary youth in BC. 🔥 🌼

And last night, we celebrated the next evolution of these grassroots organizations ~ Flourish: Education and Mentorship Society, led by Jenn Petersen, carrying this lineage forward. .bc

FEMS offers free empowerment camps for young people stepping into adolescence. With ritual. With ceremony. With community.

And I’ve been invited to sit on the board, along side another mentor of mine Lisa Hartley .celebrant

This is what happens when women dream, create, pass torches, and keep showing up for the next generation. 🦋 🔥 🌸 🍁

I can’t wait for what comes next.

03/09/2026

⭕️ We closed our ceremonial training circle yesterday.

Six weeks. Five elements. One truth that kept revealing itself — ritual knowledge already lives within us.

Every time I offer The Elements of Ritual, I walk away changed. Not because I taught something, but because of what each participant brought to the surface — their questions, their stories, their vulnerability, their wisdom.

This closing ceremony was unlike any I’ve witnessed before. Each group co-created their own portion of our 5-stage ceremony — choosing how to honour what was, what is, and what will be. The creativity and imagination they brought left me genuinely in awe. I experienced rituals I’d never encountered. That is the gift of the circle.

This is what I know to be true:

🌍 Earth. 💧 Water. 🌬️ Air. 🔥 Fire. ✨ Ether.

We are naturally ceremonial.

My role isn’t to give you something you don’t have — it’s to help you remember what you’ve always carried. The desire to mark moments of change with attention and intention is woven into our human nature.

To this cohort: thank you for trusting the circle, for showing up fully, and for teaching me as much as I taught you. This is always, always a circle of care.

🍂 The next Elements of Ritual training opens this fall. If you’ve been feeling called to deepen your relationship with ceremony — in your life, your work, your community — this is your invitation to begin.

Link in bio to join the waitlist. 🌿

03/01/2026

When did you last mark the day you met a friend who changed your life? 🕯️

We celebrate first dates, engagements, and anniversaries ~ but the friendships that carry us through heartbreak, career changes, and the quiet Tuesdays when nothing feels okay? They unfold almost entirely without ceremony.

We’re changing that.

Join us on Sunday, April 12th for Friendship Rituals: a 2-hour virtual workshop co-hosted with Psychotherapist Kate Love and Be Ceremonial’s founder Megan Sheldon, where we’ll explore how ritual can help us:

✨ Honour the beautiful beginnings of a friendship

🌀 Mark the moments when a friendship shifts or changes shape

🕊️ Grieve the versions of friendships that have run their course

🎉 Celebrate the friendships that have stayed through every season of your life

We’ll draw on Esther Perel’s concept of “multiple marriages” — applied to friendship — and you’ll leave with real practices and ceremonies you can bring into your most important relationships.

Bring a journal, a candle, and a friend in your heart (past or present). 💛

Sunday April 12 | 10am–12pm PST | $30

Registration link in bio 🔗

02/28/2026

Yesterday, I held space for the space holders.

I was asked to facilitate a team building ceremony for ~ who were also my midwives 10 and 8 years ago 🤰

These midwives show up for so many people in our community so it was my privilege to show up for them. They needed a ceremony to hold them the same way they hold others ✨

So we gathered near the beach, sun in the sky, and moved through the ritual stages of ceremony:

🌿 What was

We looked back at the story of Canopy with compassion and care — and then released what each person needed to let go of in order to move forward. They could choose to release with fire 🔥 or in the water 🌊

🌀 What is

We sat with the beautiful complexity of holding two truths at once. The joy and the grief. The fullness and the exhaustion. Being attuned and present. We discovered our capacity to hold it all.

🧵 What will be

We wove ourselves together through the matrilineal red thread ~ a symbol of our connections to self, to each other, and to this community. And each person made a wish for the future.

🪨 Closing

We closed with healing stones gifted by the phenomenal , each one carrying an intention and a reminder.

Oh and of course there were v***a cupcakes 🧁 made by one of the midwife’s daughter!

When ceremony is present, we move from Chronos time into Kairos time ~ out of the rush, and into the sacred. And we remember that the most powerful self care is community care ⭕️

So grateful to bring my ceremony work to businesses and organizations wanting to heal, connect, and dream together.

02/25/2026

When someone you love is about to go through something terrifying, and there’s nothing you can do — you find a way to do something.

Danielle is a dear friend of mine. When she was facing both the loss of her job and upcoming brain surgery, she reached out for support. Together, we used our app to help her craft a ceremony that could hold all of it.

🪢 She tied knots and untied them, releasing what she needed to let go of.

🍫 She tasted the bitterness and the sweetness of what she was carrying.

✨ And she set an intention for how she wanted to be held and supported by her community on the day of her surgery.

That intention became something extraordinary!

She made a tattoo of her own smiling face and mailed it to people all over the world ~ so that on the day of her surgery, we could wear her with us (somewhere cheeky, of course!)

Photos flooded in from all over the world. Her face out in the wild, held in the hands, on the hearts and in the care of people who love her.

She was not alone. We were all holding her close.

This is what’s possible when we bring attention and intention to the changes we go through. Danielle is an inspiration, and we are so honoured to share her story.

Read the full story on our blog. 🤍

02/25/2026

Friendship Rituals ✦ An Interactive Workshop

We celebrate romantic milestones ~ first dates, engagements, anniversaries ~ but our friendships don't seem to have the same built-in ritual acknowledgment.

These relationships sustain us through heartbreak, career changes, moves, and every season in between, and yet they are rarely met with ritual or ceremony.

Join Megan and for an intimate, 2-hour virtual workshop where we'll explore how ritual can help us honour our friendships with the depth and care they deserve.

🤍 Teachings on friendship seasons & cycles
🤍 Guided practices for marking transitions
🤍 Small group sharing
🤍 Ceremonies for beginnings, shifts & endings

📅 Sunday, April 12th
🕐 10am – 12pm PST
💛 $30 (recording included)

This workshop is for anyone who believes friendships deserve the same intentionality we bring to romantic love.

No experience with ritual needed.

Link in bio to register ↗

02/24/2026

💫 We arrived as strangers.

✨ We left as community.

Over four days, we moved through rituals together ~ letting go of what was, being present with what is, and setting intentions for what will be.

We peeled back layers. We sat in partner conversations. We witnessed each other ~ fully, vulnerably, authentically.

We shared our stories, our hopes, our dreams around the fire, amongst the trees, and in the sea.

And somewhere in that space, between the letting go and the dreaming forward, we became a community of care.

These photos hold the magic of people I will carry in my heart always. Each one of you brought something irreplaceable to this ceremonial container.

This is what ceremony does. It reminds us we are never truly strangers. We are never alone. We belong to each other ✨

Photos by the incredible , who saw all of you the way you deserved to be seen.

I am so deeply grateful. 💝

02/20/2026

From Broken to Becoming: Part 2 of Our New Year Ritual Retreat

After we set our intentions, after we released our rage, after we painted our brokenness gold, we turned toward what we wanted to become. ✨

Lisa Hemingway of and I invited everyone to craft their visions for the year ahead, but not with traditional vision boards.

Instead, we worked with driftwood and oyster shells I’d gathered on Hornby Island with my daughters. Pieces of the shoreline, salt-worn and weathered, waiting to hold our dreams.

Everyone chose a stick and shells and seaglass, then explored Lisa’s art supply collection: nature-inspired items, beads, fabric, and treasures that called to them. I brought stacks of magazines and invited everyone to tune into their senses.

What do you want 2025 to taste like?
Look like?
Smell like?
Sound like?
Feel like?

We each landed on a singular word to anchor our vision.

From there, we searched through images, textures, colours and objects that described what we were holding. We started to imagine the story we want to tell in the year to come.

Then we designed and built. Tying, wrapping, gluing, pasting, fastening. We created vision mobiles: hanging art that moved with the air, that caught the light, that told the sensory story of our weekend together and of our dreams for what’s ahead.

That evening, we gathered in circle. Each woman shared the story of her vision mobile, speaking her magic aloud. Self-care became community care as we set communal intentions and opened our hearts to one another.

My mobile hangs proudly on my wall now. A reminder of the weekend. The community. The courage it takes to break open and the beauty of building something new from the pieces.

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02/16/2026

Broken and Beautiful
Part 1 of our New Year Ritual Retreat

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On Thursday evening, we gathered. Candles flickered as we set our intentions for the year ahead, our voices joining with the Threshold Choir of Bowen Island in sacred song.

Together, we created the ceremony space we needed to hold what was coming.

Friday morning, ceramicist Melanie Steele arrived with arms full of her discarded work ~ cracked bowls, imperfect vessels, pieces marked by mistakes and deficiencies. We took these broken things and made them our own.

We wrote down what we needed to release. Our anger. Our fear. Our frustration. All the emotions we’re rarely given permission to feel, let alone express. We inscribed them onto the flawed pottery, letting the words sink into the clay.

And then we went outside and destroyed it all.

We threw. We stomped. We hammered. Several women screamed into the bucket, releasing rage that had been building ~ rage at everything happening in our world, anger that needed witnessing. The sound of breaking pottery became the sound of breaking open.

We then gathered the shards. Brought them back inside. Sanded them smooth, polished them, painted them gold.

Not to repair. Not to fix. But to see the beauty in the brokenness. To honour the courage it took to stand together in our anger and our release.

Each of us kept one golden fragment, and each of us gifted one to the person next to us. A reminder of our communal experience.

I commissioned Melanie to create small jars with melted sea glass inside, a place for us to hold these tangible reminders that we don’t need to be whole to be beautiful.

This was how we let go. This was how we made space for what comes next.

Part 2 coming soon. ✨

02/14/2026

Today, we gathered on the beach and lit a candle for the victims of the Tumbler Ridge school shooting.

By carving out time and space to grieve ~ to let the emotions rise up ~ we were able to offer ourselves a moment of connection and healing.

So often in the news cycle, we are forced to feel things when we’re not in a safe or grounded position to do so. Our feelings happen to us, rather than us creating space for them to arise.

The role of ritual is to create that sacred space ~ where you feel willing, able, ready, and prepared to feel what needs to be felt.

So today, as we lit a candle and held a moment of silence, we sat with the severity of what happened.

✨ With the grief our country is carrying.

✨ With the grief the community of Tumbler Ridge is carrying.

✨ With the grief the families of those who were killed are carrying.

We allowed our emotions to rise to the surface. Tears mixing with saltwater as we swam in the sea. We carved out the ceremonial space needed to feel this on our own terms.

And that matters deeply.

We are all grieving something, every single day. If we don’t create sacred space to feel it, we push it down ~ and it calcifies and hardens. Eventually, we either stop feeling altogether, or it all comes bursting out in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ritual offers brave, intentional space to feel our feelings.

This post is in honour of all of the victims of Tumbler Ridge. 🕯️

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