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When a helper's death shatters faith in recovery

My therapist died unexpectedly and now I feel like I lost not just her but my capacity to believe that healing is possible.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The death of someone who represented hope and continuity can collapse the entire framework through which healing felt possible.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Heidegger's being-toward-death?”

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