Rituals are often thought of as very elaborate ceremonies but they don’t have to be. I was so happy to see this book published and teaching how rituals can be used for caring for your soul. I was honored to have the chance to review this book and I am so grateful I did.
“Rituals are like mirrors that we can hold up to reflect our lives’ journeys. The ceremonial process allows us to step out of time and experience something beyond the mundane, revealing the sacred turning points in our lives and guiding us deeper into our souls’ calling.”
Ritual as Remedy 
Author: Mara Branscombe
Publisher: Fiondhorn Press
Published: June 7th 2022
Book Length: 288 Pages
Genre: Spirituality, Nonfiction, Spiritual Self-Help
Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
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A step-by-step guide to potent self-care and soul-care rituals that awaken freedom, joy, intuition, self-love, and your inner mystic
• Explains how ritual can serve as a way to ground yourself, invite in the new, let go of what needs to be shed, and tap into your own inner powers
• Shares ancient and modern rituals, ceremonies, and practices to connect with the seasons, the lunar cycles, and the five elements, as well as open your heart, dance with your shadow self, grow your intuition, and connect with your body
• Offers detailed instructions for each ritual, ceremony, and transformative healing practice
HEALING BALM for psyche and soul, ritual invokes a unique magic that allows us to step beyond the mundane and touch base with the sacred turning points in our life and the truth of our soul’s calling.
In this evocative guide, Mara Branscombe offers potent soul-care rituals and ceremonies to purify and strengthen minds, hearts, and bodies, so as to enable us to activate our inner power. Connecting with the pagan wheel of the year, the five elements, and the lunar cycle, soulstirring rituals and step-by-step healing protocols show a path towards a deeper, heart-centered living. Transformative practices such as guided meditations and visualizations, breathwork, altar creation, and discovery of our personal empowerment mantras facilitate our healing journey. Ancient and modern ceremonies and specific spiritual formulas help us embody a loving existence, dance with our shadow self, engage with grief, grow our intuition, dismantle limiting beliefs, and heal toxic patterns to find inner strength and peace.
Ritual as Remedy is an invitation to shape-shift, heal, transform, and reclaim one’s true soul purpose through powerful self-care protocols that awaken freedom, joy, and a wild, untamed self-love.
I first want to mention that this book is not written in a fashion where you would sit and read through it in one sitting. It is meant for you to read sections, put it into practice and then come back for more. This is meant to be a resource, a tool on your spiritual self-help journey and it is a wonderful one that both new and experienced spiritual practitioners can find useful information within.
A broad explanation of ritual is used throughout the book, meaning “anything that is done with intention.” This would be something people do alone or with others that offers a connection to the elements, seasons, or something similar. I am a nature lover, I need the seasons. This is actually the reason I do not want to move too far south, I would miss the seasons as I know them. Branscombe takes us through various rituals that embody wisdom of past generations that helps us to connect with nature and the patterns it follows.
Now, this book is not all information dump. There are step by step meditations and other practices meant to be used in conjunction with the information provided as a tool to put into practice each chapter. I really enjoyed these as well as the journal prompts. It makes the book feel more realistic, almost as if she is teaching you and giving assignments to help solidify each lesson.
“…read through each practice, get a sense of it, gather any supplies needed, then take time between each step to feel the healing, welcoming changes in your body and mind and always have your journal to take notes.”
That being said, I love learning and I always loved school but for some this may not be the case. There are no requirements to do any of the activities but I recommend doing them. They are powerful and can help you transform your self-healing practice.
There is so much information packed in these chapters that it would be an impossibly long review if I unpacked it all here. I will say that I really loved how the book was broken into elements in some sections. These sections not only explained using them in practice but what they stand for. I think I resonated with Fire a lot simply because I need that in my life right now. Many of us forget that we are powerful, passionate energy beings. The fire boost self-esteem, confidence, etc. If this center is not balanced, our confidence is not the only area of our lives to suffer…our creativity does as well. My favorite section was chapter 5 though, Earth. I am primarily Earth in my natal chart so these practices felt like home to me. Being able to use fear as a flame for transformation is something many would benefit from. It is something I strive for daily.
“Rituals give us direct access to our healing, reflect our emotions, and show us how we can access inner transformation and awaken our intuitive power.”
Overall, this is an amazing book that I think everyone should incorporate into their self-healing work. Packed with information in a straight forward, easy to understand manner, it walks you though steps of simple rituals you can add that don’t take much time. I am a busy mom boss so time is very valuable since I don’t have much of it. This is the perfect addition to any shelf.
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