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How professional grief interventions can miss existing mourning practices

My therapist wants me to write a letter to my dead mother but I already talk to her picture every day and that feels more real than writing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Therapeutic approaches to bereavement often overlook the personal rituals that mourners have already developed to maintain connection with the dead.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Grief rituals across cultures — what they accomplish?”

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