Merryn Tenalach

Merryn Tenalach Walker of the between spaces. Living life in deep relationship with nature and unseen landscapes.

I offer grief tending, death doula support, sacred ceremonies, person centred funerals and nurturing retreat days.

My little Lu is the face of our grief cafes today. He’s experiencing his own grief right now so there’s no more perfect ...
10/01/2026

My little Lu is the face of our grief cafes today. He’s experiencing his own grief right now so there’s no more perfect time 🐈‍⬛

Join me on Monday in Leegomery Community Centre 1.30-2.30pm for conversations about grief, death and dying with practices of non-judgement, confidentiality and compassion, you can rest assured that you and anything you share, will be cared for.

For more information and details about our other locations and timings, visit www.shropshiregrieftending.com

The truth in opposites being side by side. Sitting with two, sometimes more, feelings or thoughts all at once, different...
06/01/2026

The truth in opposites being side by side. Sitting with two, sometimes more, feelings or thoughts all at once, different and yet somehow feeling innately human to have this possibility. Spinning tales of threads that do not cancel one another, but strengthen the cloth.

I am learning that the loom does not ask for certainty. It asks only that the hands return, again and again, to the work. One thread is cool as frost, pale and quiet, drawn from still fields and sleeping hedgerows. Another is warm, dark, alive with ember and smoke. They meet, not to agree, but to belong.

The land knows this pattern well. Snow settles without apology on branches that once held birdsong. Fire waits patiently in the heart of wood, remembering summers it has already lived. Roots hold fast in soil that shifts and sighs with rain. Rivers move forward while curling back on themselves, never once confused about their direction.

I am walking a path like this, steady-footed and yet aware of the ground’s subtle sway. There is contentment in the rhythm of breath, in the small daily gestures that keep me tethered to the present moment. There is also a loosening, a not-knowing, a sense of being suspended between one season and the next.

So I weave. I let both threads speak. I do not rush the pattern or pull the fibres too tight. I trust the wisdom of tension, the way cloth gains strength from opposing pulls. The weave holds because it must, because it has learned how.

Perhaps this is the quiet work of becoming, to walk with calm in the chest and tremor in the knees, to tend the fire while snow gathers on the roof, to keep travelling without demanding to see the whole map.

The cloth grows anyway.

Today we gathered at Soulton Long Barrow for the first art session of The Turning Year.We stepped into cold, bright air ...
04/01/2026

Today we gathered at Soulton Long Barrow for the first art session of The Turning Year.

We stepped into cold, bright air and met the land as kin, letting art come through us rather than asking it to perform. Snow underfoot, ancient water moving through sky, soil, and body, the same waters that have returned here again and again with those who walked before us.

We followed tracks through long grasses, listened with our animal selves, warmed our hands with tea and quiet presence, and remembered that creativity is a relationship, not an effort.

The Turning Year is an invitation to meet the seasons through art, land, and embodied listening, to build reciprocal relationship with place, and to let something older and wiser guide the making.

If your body knows this call, if you are longing to slow, to create, to belong again, you are welcome.

We gather again next month.

✨ As the wheel of the year turns, I feel the invitation to gather, to pause, to reflect, to move into what is emerging w...
02/01/2026

✨ As the wheel of the year turns, I feel the invitation to gather, to pause, to reflect, to move into what is emerging with care and openness. ✨

2025 has been a profound season of tending thresholds, holding space for grief, walking with so many through transformation, and anchoring this work into community with intention. I have been reminded again and again that life’s moments, endings and beginnings, deserve ceremony, witness, and depth.

So I’m inviting you to come and join me for The Turning Year, a space to fully immerse in an immense landscape over a year meeting your inner artist, your inner musings. Not fast, not noisy, not forced, but steady, embodied, and true.

Creativity can emerge in any form - writing, drawing, movement, sound, or simple attentive presence. No artistic experience is required - only curiosity and a willingness to be present.

Please note, this programme is not here to teach you art techniques. This has been curated to help you sink into flow, connect with your own inner artist and express yourself in ways that feel aligned to you. You bring along anything you are feeling drawn to. If you are connected to writing poetry, bring along your journal and a pen. If you love to move your body, bring yourself. If you enjoy painting, bring your paper and paints. This space is for you to sink into your practice. I, Merryn, provide the holding, the alignment, the support and we all gratefully receive from being in such a beautiful place.

Monthly sessions:
- Sunday afternoons, 1–3pm, following the Barrow’s open days (full list of dates on website).
- Guided practice: Gentle prompts and exercises help you meet your inner artist, using the Barrow and surrounding land as inspiration.
- Creative exploration: Time is held for individual expression, in whatever medium or form emerges.
- Closing circle: Each session ends with a grounding reflection to integrate your discoveries.

You are welcome exactly as you are, not to perform, not to fix, but to be held in the tender place where endings meet beginnings. 💛

If your soul is whispering Yes, come and turn the year with me.

With a soft and open heart,
Merryn Tenalach
https://www.merryntenalach.com/merrynevents

Hi everyone,I am SO close to reaching my target of selling 200 books before the year is out! I have only 8 books left he...
18/12/2025

Hi everyone,

I am SO close to reaching my target of selling 200 books before the year is out! I have only 8 books left here on my shelf! To make last post before Christmas, orders need to be placed now so I can package them up and get them over to our local post office who are celebrating every book sale right alongside me!

Of course, you will be able to purchase from me in the new year and always on Amazon but this is about welcoming my goal, a goal that felt stretchy and a real challenge and I'm sooooo close!

https://www.merryntenalach.com/product-page/guided

12/12/2025

9 9 9

I researched it - angel number 999 signifies the end of a major cycle, completion and a powerful call to new beginnings.

Let’s go!

9 books left on my shelf.
9 tickets left for the Winter Solstice Event at Soulton Long Barrow
9 space left on The Turning Year

Now is your time ❤️

I was reminded whilst reading a research paper yesterday for my studies. Ritual isn’t just about pretty moments. It isn’...
06/12/2025

I was reminded whilst reading a research paper yesterday for my studies. Ritual isn’t just about pretty moments. It isn’t for show. It quite literally aligns us to feel a sense of belonging which is one of the main drives for us humans. We all want to belong.

GUIDED to was written to bring you home to yourself, to help you find joy in the small mundane moments of life but also to approach threshold moments with the reverence they deserve, to provide initiatory energy with love and deep celebration honouring all the emotions and gifting you the connection to yourself, your nearest and dearest and to the wider world including source.

It’s a biggy!!

You can buy yours today by clicking the link in my bio ❤️

05/12/2025

That’s it! I have officially lost the plot!

I have only twelve books left on my shelf, obviously I can get more so there’s no problem at all if you want one in the future.

When I first released this book into the loving hands of my readers, I worked with my amazing mentor to set a crunchy goal for myself. Sell 200 books in 6 months!

200 felt like such a long way off when I began, sales were trickling in sometimes one a week, sometimes none then there would be a surprise six all on the same day.

I reached out for support from people I’d worked with in the past to help me spread the word of this creation and often heard nothing back. I contacted shops and heard nothing back. I did this by myself and with a small group of magical, loving friends who have helped me to sing its praise from the rooftops!

It’s been a process!

Anyway, fast forward to now, we’re just two weeks away from the end of those six months and I have only 12 copies left of that goal of selling 200!

What a perfect time for the end of that goal to be right before Yule and Christmas. Gift giving season!

So here’s me, singing, being silly, enjoying the process because heck, if I can’t enjoy this last bit, what has it all been for?!

So…GUIDED…a book created with source, channelled words of love, guidance and support for each of us to hold us through the thresholds that we may or we will experience as women. It covers menarche, conscious conception, miscarriage, pregnancy, birth, becoming a mother both through birth and in other ways such as adoption or becoming a step-parent, menopause and at the end, it touches on death as a beginning to my next book.

It’s full, it’s bursting with ideas to help hold you, your families, your sisters, your wider communities and quite frankly, in the words of an Amazon Review, ‘everyone should have a copy on their shelf’.

04/12/2025

I have twelve books left until I reach my goal of selling 200 books in 6 months!

Twelve books, twelve days of Christmas! I wrote a song! I was trying to creatively sell 🤪

For f*** sake, please help spread the word, let’s get these twelve of the shelf and save us all 😂

GUIDED, a much more serious book than this attempted song, all about ceremony and rituals for women. Marking thresholds with beauty and intent. It’s bursting with poetic prose, poetry and practical ideas for holding ceremony. I’d buy it! 🥰






















I feel so blessed to be posting out as many books as I am right now. Order after order coming in. Person after person pu...
02/12/2025

I feel so blessed to be posting out as many books as I am right now.

Order after order coming in.

Person after person purchasing a book to welcome them or reignite their passion for ceremony.

Storytelling, poetry, prose, ceremony ideas, prayer…it’s such a blessing!

“Guided is a truly beautiful offering. Merryn’s writing holds the reader with such gentleness and wisdom that you cannot help but feel heard, held and seen. I wholeheartedly recommend it.” Amazon Review

I have 47 copies on my shelf here. That’s 47 copies that are ready to head out to you, your friends, your daughters, mot...
02/12/2025

I have 47 copies on my shelf here.

That’s 47 copies that are ready to head out to you, your friends, your daughters, mothers, sisters.

And, it’s a very happy Merryn that would have made her dream of selling 200 books before the end of 2025 a reality ❤️

Click the link in my bio to order your copy 🥰

Grief is not a problem to fix.It is love trying to find its shape again.It is the ache that shows we have lived, attache...
01/12/2025

Grief is not a problem to fix.

It is love trying to find its shape again.

It is the ache that shows we have lived, attached, cared, hoped.

This week, I honour grief as a wise companion, not an enemy.

If you are grieving, you are not broken. You are being shown the depth of your love.

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