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When decades of practice feel inadequate for profound grief

I have been meditating since college and I am fifty-seven and my husband just died and none of my practice seems to matter in the face of this loss.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The magnitude of loss confronts the practitioner with the limits of what contemplative training can provide during life's most difficult passages.

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