Review from Judi Hollis, Ph.D, New York and Palm Springs, latest book, “From Bagels to Buddha: How I Found My Soul and Lost My Fat.” http://www.judihollis.com
“After more than forty years as a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor (MFCC), I’ve just had opportunity to witness one of the most moving and touching declarations of love and commitment ever. It was a “Marriage Memorial Ceremony” conducted by Pamela Henry, owner of Soul Custody, at the Spiritual Treatment Center in Redlands. This memorial to her own recently ended marriage is under the auspices of “Soul Custody” a new grief tool to help people hold on to love, joy, and commitment while also leaning in to the pain and remorse of letting go. Since Pamela does not want to take others anywhere she is not willing to tread, she instituted this first ceremony as a memorial to her own marriage, walking in a white lace cowgirl wedding dress that still fit before us all into the sunlight of contentment around pain. Two of her three children were there to watch short clips of the video of her covered wagon wedding in a Montana pasture. She then read some powerful writings of her own regarding the marriage. She spoke to the 20-year journey she and her children’s father had taken with continuous counseling and spiritual guidance making their love work. And when it was time to face who they’d grown into, that they’d become fully whole individuated beings, they decided to separate with love and continuing mutual support for their children. We all danced through our tears and knew that Pamela and their children were definitely all right.”
— Judi Hollis, Ph.D, http://www.judihollis.com
Soul Custody Press 