Welcome! I am Rev. Debora Hall Bradley, an Ordained Interfaith Minister. I have dedicated my ministry to helping others create spiritual ceremonies and rituals that have profound and deeply personal meaning for them.
 All cultures use rituals and ceremonies to mark life events, to celebrate life, to support healing, to mourn loss and to let go of what no longer serves us. We experience much change throughout our lives, and rituals and ceremonies can help us to adjust to these changes. These rites of passage, or life events, include birth, marriage and death as well as others such as coming of age, moving in or out of a house, starting or ending a job, and many more. Any of life’s events, any everyday activity can be viewed as being a container for the sacred. Rituals help us gain a spiritual perspective about all of life.
What a magical endeavor it was, not only to create the ceremony together with your wonderful guidance and wisdom, but especially to experience it!
-Roger and Brianna, Santa Barbara, CA |
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On a deeper level, rituals have the power to transform our lives. They open our awareness and connect us with the world around us and with our deeper selves, our sacred being. They empower us, and help us take responsibility for our lives, and cope with and master the many changes we encounter. Ceremonies offer us a framework, a container within which we can experience our deepest feelings and share them with others. We enter sacred time and sacred space through rituals and ceremonies, stepping outside our ordinary reality to experience the greater reality of our higher Self. Transformation and healing can take place in this beyond-the-ordinary time and place. Rituals celebrate, and give us an experience of, the mysteries of life.
For some of us, traditional rituals and ceremonies may no longer hold meaning. So re-creating, re-shaping these rituals to meet our needs is important for finding the balance and wholeness in life we seek. I offer you my heartfelt assistance in developing and adapting ceremonies and rituals to give your life meaning. All religions offer wisdom and sacred practices, and we can create rituals and ceremonies that blend the old with the new, while honoring all.
As you read through my website, my hope is that you will find inspiration, renewal and the desire to joyously create your own deeply meaningful ceremonies and rituals. I also hope that you will allow me to join you in this process, on your journey.
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