Three years after my daughter died in a car accident, I finally started volunteering at the children's hospital and I feel guilty that helping other families makes me feel alive again when my own child is gone.
More people experience this than they realize.
The guilt of finding meaning and vitality through service when your own loss remains unhealed creates a painful tension between growth and loyalty to what was lost.
“Where Are You with Post-traumatic growth — what can grow in the soil of loss?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.