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When grief returns after completing Islamic mourning traditions

My husband died three months ago and I attended his forty-day ceremony, but now I feel like I am mourning all over again and people keep telling me I should be moving forward.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The ritual container of mourning can create false expectations that grief ends when ceremony ends.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Islamic mourning — the forty-day tradition?”

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