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When siblings process loss through different spiritual frameworks

My brother and I both walked away from organized religion after our dad died, but he's found his way into meditation and Eastern spirituality while I've become more of an agnostic, and now when we talk about Dad's death we end up in these painful conversations where he thinks I'm stuck in bitterness and I think he's avoiding grief with spiritual bypassing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Grief becomes complicated when family members find meaning through incompatible spiritual approaches, each viewing the other's path as inadequate.

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