Name: Reviving Ritual
Author: Heather Stringer
ISBN: 9780802884251

Ritual is the ancient wisdom that’s missing from our modern lives.

Friendships matter. Therapy helps. But somewhere between the group chats and the guided meditations, between the spin-class mantras and the moon-cycle apps, a quieter ache persists—a longing for spaces that can hold both our loudest griefs and our ordinary joys. We sense that our lives need to be witnessed, our experiences charged with meaning. We just don’t remember how.

Drawing on her work as a licensed trauma therapist and performance artist, Heather Stringer reveals ritual as an essential human practice—not rigid or religious, but soulful and embodied. Powered by psychological insight and vivid storytelling, Reviving Ritual: Sacred Practices for Modern Life guides readers through rituals for the ordinary and the extraordinary: daily and seasonal rhythms that root us, rituals of descent for grief and trauma, rituals of ascent for celebration and reclamation.

Unacknowledged, our experiences don’t disappear; they go underground, often fracturing our inner lives in ways we can’t fully see or understand. But through carefully crafted rituals, we can gather the scattered parts of ourselves and inhabit our lives more fully—metabolizing loss, celebrating beauty, honoring anger, awakening desire. Compassionate and wise, Reviving Ritual teaches us how to reclaim the past and acknowledge the present—and in so doing, how to chart a more hopeful future. 

January 5, 2027
9780802884251
$27
Paperback
208 Pages
5.5in x 8.5in

Reviews

“A wonderful primer on ritual—deep yet accessible, wise, and captivating.”
—Casper ter Kuile, author of The Power of Ritual

“Heather Stringer has been my teacher and guide for over a decade in forming rituals that have helped give meaning to grief and joy. Her writing is majestic, compelling, and comforting. Her prompt is to see your life as living art and ritual as a canvas to paint the story for the sake of remembering who you are becoming. Not only will your life have more meaning, but your heart will grow in depth and beauty.”
—Dan B. Allender, author of The Wounded Heart

“Reviving Ritual is an audacious attempt to do just that: bring us back to a place of vitality in our day-to-day lives. I know of no better guide than Heather Stringer to introduce your soul and body to what you deeply need: rituals large and small. This book will not only teach you why you were created to participate in rituals but will also show you—in an embodied way—how to participate in this sacred process of naming the past and tending to the present, so that you begin to anticipate the surprising goodness of the future.”
—Adam Young, host of The Place We Find Ourselves

“Heather Stringer has spent a decade as our community’s ritual maker, and Reviving Ritual proves she can do on the page what she’s always done in person: Pull the ancient thread of ritual and place it, effortlessly, back into our hands.”
—Cathy Loerzel, coauthor of Redeeming Heartache

“As I read through Reviving Ritual, I kept thinking, ‘Maybe I don’t need a more impressive life—maybe I just need a way to be present for the one that I keep rushing through.’ Thank you, Heather Stringer, for offering a tender, tangible invitation to give my grief somewhere to go and my joy room to breathe.”
—Scott Erickson, author of Say Yes

“Reviving Ritual gives us something our hurried, disembodied world desperately needs: a way to mark what matters. Heather Stringer invites us to meet grief, joy, transition, and the sacred with our whole bodies and within the gift of community. Tender, wise, and deeply practical, this book is not simply about ritual; it is an initiation into living with greater presence and wild reverence.”
—Christy Angelle Bauman, author of Her Rites