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Held by Claire I offer a compassionate, grounded presence to support you through life’s sacred transitions, whether through ceremony, healing, or at the end of life.

My work is guided by intuition, deep listening, and a gentle respect for the sacred in each moment. Following a 30 year career in teaching, I set up my own business Pathfinder Holistic Healing in 2017 after qualifying in spiritual counselling, Soul Plan Reading and other healing therapies at the Holistic Healing College in London. Training as a Celebrant and then an End-of-Life Doula/Soul Midwife with the UK Society of Celebrants felt like a natural progression and extension of my holistic business and I found many parallels between the two businesses that, for several years, I ran alongside each other. In 2025, after 2 years of very deep and insightful training with the One Spirit Interfaith Foundation, I was ordained as an Interfaith Minister and I brought my celebrant, spiritual accompaniment and healing services together under my new business name Held by Claire. I live in the beautiful village of Withnell, near Chorley, with my dog, Scooby. Alongside my ministry and spiritual practice, I enjoy walking, reading, singing, cricket and spending time with my son and grandson. Being an Interfaith Minister to me is acceptance of all faiths and those who don’t conform to any organised religion. It’s about seeing and celebrating the value and worth in everyone and the understanding that each of us has our own path to travel. It’s about creating a space, whether through my celebrant work, healing work or spiritual accompaniment, where everyone can feel safe, valued, respected and held, and where there is an opportunity for connection, healing and growth. I offer you my presence, my respect, my compassion and a safe space where you can freely express yourself and know you will be listened to deeply and without judgement. Services offered: Interfaith Celebrant, Soul Midwife (End of Life doula), Spiritual Accompaniment, Healing therapies & readings (Reiki, Soul Plan Reading, Soul Transformation Therapy, Qigong).

08/11/2026

Sunday Stillness 🩵

01/11/2026

Sunday Stillness 🧡🪶

31/10/2026

Tonight is Samhain, the Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest and the start of winter, when the boundary between this world and the next was said to grow thin. Many Pagans keep it today. Tomorrow and Monday, many Christians mark All Saints and All Souls.

In Mexico, and in Mexican communities around the world, families are setting up ofrendas for Día de los Mu***os, with photographs, marigolds and the favourite foods of the people they've lost.

Other traditions have their own times for this: Pitru Paksha in Hindu tradition, Obon in Japan, Qingming in China, Yahrzeit on the anniversary of a death in Judaism, and in Islam, visiting graves and praying for those who have died.

However and whenever it's done, the instinct is shared: to set time aside for the dead, and to say their names out loud.

📸 Mche Lee, Unsplash

***os

31/10/2026

The dead are not distant or absent. They are alongside us. When we lose someone to death, we lose their physical image and presence, they slip out of visible form into invisible presence. This alteration of form is the reason we cannot see the dead. But because we cannot see them does not mean that they are not there. Transfigured into eternal form, the dead cannot reverse the journey and even for one second re-enter their old form to linger with us a while. Though they cannot reappear, they continue to be near us and part of the healing of grief is the refinement of our hearts whereby we come to sense their loving nearness. When we ourselves enter the eternal world and come to see our lives on earth in full view, we may be surprised at the immense assistance and support with which our departed loved ones have accompanied every moment of our lives. In their new, transfigured presence their compassion, understanding and love take on a divine depth, enabling them to become secret angels guiding and sheltering the unfolding of our destiny.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his books, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (US) / Divine Beauty (Europe)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

25/10/2026

Sunday Stillness 🩵💚

18/10/2026

Sunday Stillness 💚🩵💨

Lovely wander on the Yorkshire Moors on the way home today 💚💨
16/10/2026

Lovely wander on the Yorkshire Moors on the way home today 💚💨

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Monday 09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 18:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday 09:00 - 18:00
Friday 09:00 - 18:00
Saturday 09:00 - 15:00

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