Dias de Los Muertos - connecting with our Loved Ones with cempasuchiles

Written By Pamela Ann Noxon

The Day of the Dead sounds scary to most people who aren’t familiar with the celebration. But this beautiful and colorful holiday is an annual celebration of family and friends gathering to pay respects and to remember friends and family members who have died, including pets.

For most of humanity, people understood that death was a part of life and they incorporated honoring ancestors and deceased loved ones into their life with altars, rituals, celebrations, memorials, visits to gravesites, memories shared, family trees kept, all traditions that kept their stories alive. All of these keep the living connected to the love. ❤️

The Marigold flower (cempasuchiles) used on Dias de Los Muertos offends (altars) and cemeteries is also used to create a pathway that crosses to the other side where our loved ones dwell. The marigolds - with their bright orange color and their strong scent - are said to guide the spirits of our loved ones back to the living world to join us for a day of loving celebration.

Making our loved ones who passed on our guests of honor can and should be a practice that we bring to each and every day in healthy holistic grieving.

Continuing and even developing and deepening your connection with your loved ones is emotionally, mentally, and spiritually healthy and as part of whole, healthy grieving.

Love, never dies.

We can weave our love, our communication, our memories, our stories and offerings into a daily practice to act as the bright colors and beautiful scents of the flowers to open up the portal and lift the veil between the living and the passed, so that we can reunite connect and celebrate with our loved ones every day.

How can you honor celebrate and stay connected to your loved ones who have passed on?

We wish you a fulfilling and connected Dias de Los Muertos. And send you love and comfort for all your losses. ❤️

Pamela Ann Noxon

Author, trauma-informed Holistic Grief Educator, Grief Coaching Mentor & Trainer, Inspirational Speaker & Workshop leader, Pamela Ann Noxon offers compassionate and creative ways to help those in loss heal with their grief and stay connected to their loved ones.

After decades of study in trauma, grief, holistic health and wellness, and numerous losses that included her mother, father, close family, dear friends, close colleagues, and beloved pets, she has created a unique protocol, combining the latest grief coaching techniques, with hypnotherapy, art therapy, breathing work, movement therapies, and a deep connection to nature and animals; to create a profound and revolutionary, truly holistic method of helping people navigate their grief well. Her main goal: to train others to be of compassionate, conscious service to those in loss and grief.

Pamela is the force behind all that Mourning Goods brings to our time: purposefully designed condolence products, interactive creative journals, holistic grief books, grief podcasts, coaching, workshops, and programs for the grieving, and support and certification courses for new grief coaches.

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