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When your support group becomes stuck in complaint mode

Three of us have been meeting monthly to talk through career transitions and it's turned into a place where we just complain about our jobs instead of actually figuring out what we want. We all know it but nobody wants to be the one to call it out because we're afraid of losing the only space we have to process this stuff.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sometimes the safety of shared frustration becomes a substitute for the harder work of shared discernment.

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