My best friend and I both volunteer with kids who've lost parents, and lately we keep getting into these intense debates about whether we should share our own loss stories with them or keep professional boundaries. We started doing this work together because we both lost our dads young, but now our different philosophies about grief support are creating tension between us.
More people experience this than they realize.
Shared personal experience with loss has created both connection and conflict in how two people believe grief should be witnessed and held.
“Where Are You with Children and grief — supporting young people?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.