My sister and I have both been trying to honor our mom's memory by volunteering at the homeless shelter she cared about, but we keep clashing over whether we're doing it 'right' and I think we're both afraid the other one doesn't understand what this work means to us. We're turning something that should bring us closer to her into another source of distance between us.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are discovering that shared meaning-making after loss requires navigating different relationships to purpose and different ways of carrying forward what mattered to someone they've lost.
“Where Are You with New meaning after loss — Frankl applied to grief?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.