Guided: Ceremonies and Rituals for Women
By Merryn Tenalach
Guided is a tender, soul-rooted companion for women walking through life's most transformative thresholds, from menarche to motherhood, birth to weaning, loss to renewal. Blending poetic prose, ancestral wisdom, plant medicine, and ceremony, this book invites readers to meet their edges with reverence and remembrance.
Inside you'll find guided rituals for marking first blood, conscious conception, the sacredness of birth, and the grief of endings. Each chapter weaves together evocative writing, herbal guidance, and practical ceremonies to help you honour your own rites of passage, or hold space for others.
This book is a call to come home to the body, to the land, to the ancient knowing within. It’s for birthkeepers, death doulas, celebrants, mothers, daughters, and anyone drawn to live and serve in deeper connection.
Let this book walk with you. Let it whisper the words you forgot you knew. Let it guide you back to the ceremonial life that has always been yours.
“This book helped me bring ceremony into places I didn’t know it belonged, including my own heart.”
“More than a book. A sacred companion.”
“Merryn is wise beyond her years and embodies the loving presence of all the women who have gone before me.”
 
“Time spent with Merryn is like stepping into the warmest of hugs as she wraps you up in love and understanding.”
 
That’s the aim with this book. May you feel the wisdom of our ancestors with each word shared, may you feel the warmth in each story told and may you be filled with nourishing ideas to nurture yourself, your family and your wider community.
 
Written by Merryn Tenalach
Cover by Tarn Ellis