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Entity & Essence Professional Funeral Celebrant, Maria Thérèse Williams, providing Funerals, Memorials and Scatterings

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25/05/2026

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🤍 Personally, I’ve just lost three people in four months and two more were facing uncertainty due to brain tumours. All ...
17/05/2026

🤍 Personally, I’ve just lost three people in four months and two more were facing uncertainty due to brain tumours. All close female energies to me. Grief and anticipatory grief are so unique to everyone and working in the world of dying, grief and death doesn’t make it any easier to negotiate.

This episode of ‘s “Dying for a Cuppa” was so interesting and so emotional (as most of them are).

🤍 Carol McLoud is a widowed forensic scientist and her experiences and her candid reflections are so interesting.

🤍 Grief is unique to each of us but Carol’s professional awareness of the effect of sudden and sometimes violent deaths and the grief they cause could not prepare her for her personal loss. Our grief is shaped by our personal and professional experiences and where we have previously focussed the development of our intellect.

🤍 We need to trust our instincts: It’s interesting to notice that, although consciously, Carol didn’t want to tell her husband he was dying, subconsciously, she knew it was important to share her feelings and his eulogy with him.

🤍 How she reflects on the good in her life, recognising the blessing her husband was to her and what her good and bad experience (loving him and losing him) has taught her is inspirational.

🤍 Thank you to Carol for her candid sharing and to Katie for proving the platform to help us all learn more about death, dying and grieving.

🤍 Dying Matters Week showed that grief support is not about having all the answers.🤍 Most bereaved people are not lookin...
11/05/2026

🤍 Dying Matters Week showed that grief support is not about having all the answers.

🤍 Most bereaved people are not looking for perfect words.

🤍 Grief is something very few of us are formally taught how to navigate. Feeling uncertain about how to help is common but you just need to stay present, listen without rushing and respond with compassion rather than avoidance.

🤍 The reality is that death, dying and bereavement touch every area of life. We just need to truly be there when people need support.

TALK ABOUT DEATH AND DYING🤍 Bring one of life’s natural processes out of the world of taboo.🤍 Let’s remember that we a...
07/05/2026


TALK ABOUT DEATH AND DYING

🤍 Bring one of life’s natural processes out of the world of taboo.

🤍 Let’s remember that we all die and talk about it. Give each other permission to share their stories and it may help with their grief or fear.

06/05/2026

has come around again. 🤍✨

As a Celebrant, I know how important it is to get the general public talking about death again. Do not shy away for words like “dead” “died” “dying” they mean what they say and should not evoke fear.

We used to die in the company of our community. Now, more often than it should, the process is handed over to the care of professionals - swept under the carpet of medical care and then immediately to undertakers and we miss so much opportunity for care and ritual.

People we love (us) die - it’s part of the natural order of things. The body knows how to be born and give birth and live and, then, it knows how to die.

Talking about this; normalising it again, is vital for the support of the dying and the grieving and it is extremely instrumental in lifting the importance of living our lives to their fullest.





01/05/2026

🤍 I work with all kinds of funeral directors - independent; large chains & online. They all have wonderful, compassionate people working for them.
However, I love this video by SAIF independent funeral directors that explains the personal touch you receive from using their members and how everything others advertise, they can provide with more care.

🤍 Give it a watch, it’s worth it.

🤍 I’m grateful and humbled, as always, to get messages from the families I support through their funeral planning; a d...
01/05/2026



🤍 I’m grateful and humbled, as always, to get messages from the families I support through their funeral planning; a difficult and emotional time for them all.

🤍 I learn things from every family I support and develop greater awareness of human nature and its capacity to love.

🤍 I feel so blessed to have such a fulfilling role but it’s a welcome bonus to hear that I do it well. Thank you 🤍

🤍 The unknown author of this quote probably meant everyone’s memories but is also perfectly describes the role of a good...
29/04/2026

🤍 The unknown author of this quote probably meant everyone’s memories but is also perfectly describes the role of a good Funeral Celebrant.

🤍 Leaves of memories fall into our laps as we sit with the families we are supporting and we gather those leaves up and express them as the treasures they are to the people listening at the Funeral Ceremony. 🍃 💎

I feel blessed in my role and I thank every single person who has trusted with their treasured memories. It is an honour.

🤍 I am always so grateful when families take the time to let me know I was of help.🤍 It’s such a fulfilling role.
16/04/2026

🤍 I am always so grateful when families take the time to let me know I was of help.

🤍 It’s such a fulfilling role.

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