Guided: Ceremonies and Companionship for the Thresholds of Womanhood 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, circle holders, community tenders, 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. “A balm. A remembering. I cried the whole way through, and then read it again with my daughter.” “Like being sat beside a fire, held by generations of women who always knew the way.” “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.”