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When peer support groups become complaint sessions

The four of us in this accelerator cohort started meeting weekly to support each other but it's become a place where we just complain about our problems without actually helping each other solve anything. We're all too polite to say that these sessions have become draining instead of energizing.

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Your support group has turned into a gripe session that leaves everyone more drained, and nobody says so.

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