GRIEVING AND CELEBRATION OF LIFE with Jacqui Tillyard

Show Notes

I lost my mother. And although she was ill, she died quite suddenly with something that we didn't expect to happen. And we were absolutely in total shock and numbness with her death. But we were able to have friends and family with us at the funeral ceremony, which I wrote. But thank goodness, we were able to have around about 80 people at the ceremony. Whereas today, the maximum you can have is 30. And there have been points in the past 12 months where we've only been allowed to have 10 people in the crematoria to attend a ceremony which must have been incredibly hard for family when they've got the loss of a loved one. And then they can't be with their other loved ones to comfort and support them.
I am a celebrant, so I conduct personalized funeral and wedding ceremonies and occasionally baby naming's as well. Going into 2020. You know, I felt armed to help other people because I had endured and gone through the set process of loss and grief myself the year before.
And it's been, It was like walking through triple grief because you've got the loss of the loved one and the family were grieving around that. You then got the loss of not being supported by family members because of the restriction of people allowed into the ceremony and really got the loss of grief around after the ceremony. Nobody could be together. They had to go home to their own homes and isolate again. And all you can do is let them know that there's somebody there that cares deeply about what's happening to them right now. And every single ceremony that I take, that is my intention for them. So no matter how many people are in that room, I will do my very best for them and hold the space so that they can grieve with dignity and still celebrate the life of their loved ones.

This is how you can contact Jacqui: jacqui@jacquitillyard.co.uk + http://www.jacquitillyard.com/

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