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How service activities can meet our own unacknowledged needs

I volunteer at the animal shelter every Saturday and tell people it is because I love dogs but really it is because I need something to need me and that feels pathetic to admit.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Acts of service may simultaneously fulfill others and address our own hunger for purpose and connection.

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