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When helping others through loss becomes avoidance of your own

I started a grief support group that meets in my pottery studio but I think I'm using other people's pain to avoid dealing with my own.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Service can become a sophisticated form of emotional bypassing.

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“Where Are You with Grief and creativity — making from loss?”

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