Darlings - Happy Friday! I’ve got two tasty treats for you today, both ready & waiting for you in the Classroom tab. 🐦‍⬛ 1) Introducing: The Vizzy D Resource Library 🐦‍⬛ The *Vizzy D Resource Library* is a new shared space for the resources that have shaped how we think about death, grief and ceremony, built by this community, for this community. You can find it in the Classroom tab. It's meant to grow with whatever's actually shaping your practice right now, the book that changed how you show up with a family, the podcast episode you've sent to three colleagues, the poem you keep coming back to for readings. A shared shelf of books, podcasts, documentaries, readings, trainings and accounts that have shaped how we think about death, grief and ceremony. Comment your suggestions in the new *Vizzy D Resource Library* post pinned to the top of our community chat and we can together start breathing life into this exciting new global library for us all. 🐦‍⬛ 2) Funerals Reimagined: A Guide For Creating Meaningful Ceremonies🐦‍⬛ $27 AUD / $19 USD / £15 GBP I've been sitting on this for a while and I'm genuinely excited to finally share it with you. *Funerals Reimagined: A Guide to Creating Meaningful Ceremonies* Thirty pages. Seven real ceremonies. The three shifts that turn a funeral from something people sit through into something they help create. A worksheet of prompts to actually put into practice with families. The hard part wasn't the writing. It was the cutting. I could have made this three times longer, but I wanted something you could actually share with a family, or read yourself in one sitting between appointments, not another PDF that sits in a downloads folder unread. My hope is that it helps in a few different ways. Maybe there's a story or a framing in here that gives language to something you already know in your bones but haven't quite found the words for. Maybe it's something you can point a family towards when they're struggling to imagine anything beyond the standard traditional funeral service.

Hello my darling Vizzy D's - ! We just ticked past 200 people in this little community. And we only started dreaming into all this eleven weeks ago. Eleven weeks. I keep sitting with that number, turning it over. When I started this I thought it was about visibility 'out there'. Being seen in our communities, online, in the industry. And it still is that. But watching this group take shape week by week, I'm noticing something else happening. We're becoming more visible to each other too. There are threads of connection forming here that I don't want to lose or let sit quiet in the comments and scroll past. So this week I want to slow down and ask you something honestly, because I don't want to build this community on guesses. 🐦‍⬛ Visibility Prompt for this week: What would genuinely serve you here? What do you actually want to get out of this group and the people in it? We're all coming at this work from different angles, different stages, different corners of the industry, so I know there's no single answer. But I'm keen to understand how we support each other well as this thing keeps growing... To get the conversation started, here are some shapes this could take. Pick as many as take your fancy, add your own, tell me what's missing... 1) Themed Deep Dives - ticketed online calls where we sit with one specific topic properly, instead of skimming past it in a scroll. Things like the trend toward direct cremation, VAD, business models in death care or the inner work this job demands of us. Sessions get recorded and made available in the classroom as ticketed Masterclass recordings afterwards, so the conversation keeps earning for the people who showed up and did the work. Profits shared amongst presenters. 2) Regular free drop-in calls - maybe every 6 to 8 weeks, no agenda beyond showing up. 3) One-to-one sessions with me - ticketed audit or planning sessions where we look at where you're at and map out what's next for you. 4) More self-paced courses - websites, newsletters, that kind of practical groundwork.

Wow! Just reading about this and really want to go. Timing this year isn’t good for me. But sharing as I know the UK people here may be interested. Worth Travelling for too I reckon. Although Aus / Canada may be a bit far! https://www.thesonderingfestival.co.uk/

Your experience deserves a better name… A while back, I changed one word on my website menu: BLOG became RESOURCES. That’s it. One word. But something big shifted. Not just visually, not just strategically. Something shifted in how I related to my own work. Because my inner critic had been quietly calling my writing self-indulgent for years. Just Amy processing things on the internet. Nothing to see here. 🙈 Renaming it asked me a different question. Not *what am I feeling?* but *how can this be of service?* It gave me a new angle for crafting and sharing my experiences. Through the lens of genuine usefulness rather than whatever that voice in my head had decided it was. And here’s what happened… The RESOURCES section is now the most visited part of my entire website. Those articles act as standalone lead magnets. They’re the main driver of my newsletter sign-ups. People find them, read them, and decide if they want more. Same writing. Same ideas. Just held differently. TRY IT FOR YOURSELF: Here’s a place to start. Look at what you’ve already written, or already know, or list some ideas you have - (or use any of these…), and ask: what is this actually doing? 1. “Some thoughts on embalming” → A plain-language guide to what embalming is, what it isn’t, and what families can ask 2. “Why I stopped using the word closure” → A reflective piece on grief language and what we say instead 3. “That funeral that changed everything for me” → A case study in what meaningful ceremony actually looks like 4. “What I wish families knew before they called a funeral home” → A practical rights-and-choices guide for people at the beginning of the process 5. “How I plan a ceremony when I’ve never met the person” → A behind-the-scenes look at ceremony design methodology 6. “On sitting with a body at home” → An introduction to home vigil and what families need to know 7. “The questions nobody asks at the arrangement meeting” → A question bank for families navigating funeral decisions

🐦‍⬛ This week: shoot your shot... Not recklessly. Not in a "put it out to the universe" kind of way. Just one small, deliberate act that takes you somewhere you haven't quite been willing to go yet. A podcast you'd love to be on. A publication you want to write for. Someone whose work you genuinely admire and whose radar you'd like to be on. A collaboration idea sitting in your drafts. A workshop proposal. A DM. An email. An ask. Most of us wait. We wait until we feel ready enough, established enough, polished enough to deserve the ask. We wait for visibility to arrive before we risk being visible. But it usually works the other way around. Courage tends to show up first - and it often looks completely ordinary. Sending the email. Pressing publish. Introducing yourself to that neighbourhood centre. Starting the Death Café. Replying instead of lurking. Letting yourself be seen before you feel certain. This isn't about being louder. It's about making yourself more available to what's possible. What if once a month we made a ritual of this? Carving out space for the courage to do something for our future selves. Consciously nudging the edges of our comfort zones. Forging a path in the direction of what's actually calling us. So, your Visible Friday prompt for this week: What's one shot you could take that your future self would thank you for - even if the answer turns out to be no? 🐦‍⬛ Drop yours in the comments - let's inspire each other, swap ideas, maybe even help each other craft the ask. Mine makes me wince a little to say out loud, but I've always wanted to be on the radar of Sarah Kerr at Sacred Deathcare. So I'm going to shelve my fangirl nerves and reach out. What's yours? 🎵 And because courage can grow collectively, I’ve made us a playlist mixtape. A shared 45minute soundtrack for sending the email. Pitching the idea. Hitting publish. Taking the meeting. Backing yourself.