Living Your Gifts Radio with Susan Hough: Ancient Applications for Modern Times: Transformation - Releasing Grief, Part 2

In Western culture, people grieve in private and in isolation. We are expected to “get over” grief and “move on”. Only grief doesn’t work that way. In the Dagara tradition of Burkina Faso, grief is observed in community. They hold grief rituals in which people come from far away to support each other to move through and release individual and communal grief.