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Scenario

How to perform ancestral rites when surviving family members are overly critical

I'm doing my father's shraddha but my mother is still alive and she keeps correcting everything I do and saying I'm doing it wrong and it makes me feel like a failure.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire to honor the dead becomes complicated when the living cannot agree on what honor looks like.

Your guide for this
Mira
Mira works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Hindu grief practices — antyesti and shraddha?”

Peri

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