Rituals for a more meaningful life

Here you’ll find resources and information about trauma-informed rituals that will guide you into a more meaningful, daring, and whole life.

Meet Heather

As a ritual maker, Heather Stringer curates spaces to mark significant moments in people’s lives. Rituals are powerful because they allow disruptions and change to be engaged with meaning and possibility. Rituals interrupt old behaviors, hold and name the breadth of the human experience, and allow for creativity to flow out of chaos.  

Words like trauma and story have become increasingly pedestrian, but few places offer a container to engage them. In a world yearning for meaning and beauty, we are caught in suffering and disconnection. Heather has cultivated a life of ritual, where creative acts of turning towards our life, break us open to who we are. She believes through the embrace of story and honor of the past we can transform and be set free. 

“Ritual is called for because our soul communicates things to us that the body translates as need, or want, or absence. So we enter into ritual in order to respond to the call of the soul.”

– Malidoma Somé

Rituals for You

Ritual Sessions

  • Sessions are individual meetings discussing your desire for a ritual.

    During this time, you will do therapeutic and narrative focused work with Heather to fully understand what needs to be marked and how.

  • 90 minutes

Custom Rituals

  • Custom Rituals are offered in two different ways:

    – A curated ritual with self-implementation

    OR

    – A curated ritual with Heather as the facilitator of the ritual

  • 90 minutes

Ritual Guides

  • Ritual Guides are downloadable PDFs for specific kinds of rituals for you to follow on your own.

  • 30 minutes

Ritual Boxes

  • Curated rituals in the comfort of your home. Each ritual box has a theme, whether it's beauty, motherhood, grief, etc and they include text and audio guides and all of the elements needed to do the ritual by yourself or with a few trusted friends.

  • Varies

Why Ritual?

Rituals are a poignant and necessary part of living. All living things make meaning and initiate transition through rituals, whether it’s the male spider wrapping silk around a gift to seduce the female for mating or the way Christians dunk themselves in water as a sign of rebirth.

We long to make rituals, to mark, and honor the seasons of our lives. From birth to the grave we will have known many joyful and grief-stricken experiences, all of which are worth beholding and moving through with presence and intention. But when there is an absence of acknowledging important experiences, we often find ourselves wandering and alone, unsure how to mark them in ways that are meaningful and congruent with their impact on our lives.

Rituals won’t save you, but they will be a container when life is disorienting and unknown or when you need to honor something significant. Rituals will sift through your heart and soul to draw forth what matters to you. They will draw out what has been bound and needs loosening, what is worth giving full expression to or what deserves honor and celebration.

We need gifts wrapped in silk. We need to be dunked in holy waters because this world and our inclinations are hardened at times. Rituals soften us. They ask us to have integrity, to show up to our lives, and take worthwhile risks that graciously impact our future. We live a fuller life when the cadence of ritual-making is part of our living.

Follow along…

A tribute to my Enneagram 4’s: The pressure to be different is not a random act of fate. The context from which we were formed, kneaded, and threaded was where we discovered the salvation of being different. And, it was salvation. But also,
The world we live in aches for ritual, even if we don’t know it by name. In our society, there are few spaces and guides that offer the containment and wisdom we need. Droves are leaving organized religion, technology has become a surrogate fo
We are all meant to create amidst horror. Each person’s creativity will look differently from the next. It might be mothering with more intentionality, writing poetry, becoming a more present therapist, or a better lover. Creating amidst horror
How would you know the warm impressions of love without the tenderness of flesh? How would you know the sacramental first sip of morning coffee without the budding of the tongue? Or the throbbing of eternity without the sight of peonies opening? How
This faith I inherited is a strange one. Who worships a wounded god? A god hung on a stick, sweat beading on his forehead, blood dripping down his back, urine trickling down his legs, saliva frothing around his mouth, dirt underneath his fingernails,
A few days ago Iona took my bedside sconce and wore it around her neck. She wasn’t ready for the weight of the light to plummet to the ground. But it did and it shattered. I had to use every ounce of self-control to not react. I usually react,
When soul meets body, meaning is made. Often the body’s language is unknown to the soul and the soul’s language unknown to the body. Yet they are always in conversation, speaking our experience into feeling, form, then meaning. When thei
(2/2) When my dad was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease many years ago, I experienced a lot of anxiety. I was anxious about how the disease was going to ravage my dad and I was anxious about it coming for me. One night while visiting my family
(1/2) Rituals interrupt old patterns and behaviors that keep us from receiving our lives. I call this element of rituals as sacred interruptions. We are meant to receive our lives like a mother receiving her newborn or a good father receiving his p

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