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When traditional grief ceremonies don't provide expected healing

I've been carrying grief from my mother's death for five years now and completed all the traditional ceremonies but I still feel broken and I'm starting to wonder if something is wrong with me or if the old ways aren't enough anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The failure of ancestral medicine to heal contemporary wounds raises questions about whether we've changed too much or whether some losses simply exceed all human containers.

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“Where Are You with Indigenous grief ceremonies?”

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