My best friend and I both lost our mothers this year, but she's thrown herself into elaborate Dia de los Muertos preparations while I can barely manage to visit the grave. I'm starting to feel like her rituals are 'better' somehow, more healing, but also wondering if I'm missing something about what these practices actually do for grief or if we just process loss differently.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people processing parallel losses are comparing their cultural approaches to mourning and questioning whether different rituals accomplish different kinds of healing.
“Where Are You with Grief rituals across cultures — what they accomplish?”
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