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How families navigate anniversary grief when everyone needs something different

Our family is coming up on the one-year anniversary of my sister's death and we can't agree on how to honor her memory. My mom wants a big celebration of life, my dad thinks that's too painful, I want something private and spiritual, and my brother just wants to pretend the day doesn't exist. We're all grieving her but we're also grieving who we used to be as a family.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A family discovers that honoring shared loss becomes impossible when each person's spiritual relationship to grief demands fundamentally different forms of remembrance.

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“Where Are You with Grief as spiritual practice?”

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