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When spiritual responsibility feels overwhelming

My family expects me to take over as keeper of our ancestral shrine but I feel completely unprepared and terrified of doing something wrong that might anger the spirits.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Inherited spiritual duties can create paralyzing anxiety about adequacy and potential spiritual harm through mistake.

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