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When helping others becomes a way to resurrect the dead

My daughter died and I have been volunteering at the children's hospital but I think I am just trying to save her over and over again.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Service work after loss can be motivated less by genuine altruism than by unconscious attempts to retroactively save the person who died.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with What grief reveals about what matters?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.