Rites of Passage

I  design and facilitate rituals such as baby showers and blessings, weddings, funerals, memorials, top surgery rituals, grief rituals, and other rites of passage. I officiate weddings, memorials, funerals, and more and often partner with Phoenix Song (sound healer, expressive arts facilitator, musician) who provides interactive sounding and singing experiences through or live music and sound baths. 

“Monique knows what no parent should: the death of their child. After the unexpected passing of my daughter, our shared trauma connected us immediately, and I leaned on her to help me understand the journey of grief. Her unique professional experience as a chaplain, combined with her own lived experience as a bereaved parent, allows her to navigate this unimaginable space with a tenderness and frank honesty I didn’t know could coexist.  

Monique has a vast network of healers and a diversity of resources that make her particularly suited to serving and supporting the bereaved. Her continued yearning to learn about living with heartbreak and trauma is truly her calling, and she is generous to share her knowledge without reservation. I am forever grateful to know her.

Because of this, I knew there was no one else I could trust to facilitate my daughter’s memorial. She did so with unflinching grace and care that can only come from knowing the depths of sorrow. From her detailed planning and organization to her genuine desire to know my child and ensure that was expressed the way I wanted, it was exactly as it should have been.

Monique has been—and I know will continue to be—a guiding light. They say grief is a gift, but Monique is the embodied gift born from this unbearable loss.”– Mira’s Mom