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Why religious platitudes can worsen grief

I cannot sleep since my miscarriage and everyone keeps saying God has a plan but their certainty makes me feel more alone with my rage.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Well-intended spiritual explanations may invalidate the full emotional reality of loss and trauma.

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