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Scenario

How to balance mourning obligations with children's daily needs

Our family has been doing the nightly prayer vigils for my deceased father for two weeks, but my children are exhausted and falling behind in school and I do not know when to choose their wellbeing over tradition.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The demands of honoring the dead can overwhelm the needs of the living.

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 African grief traditions — communal mourning?”

Peri

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