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When grief support groups become competitive instead of healing

Our friend group started a monthly grief circle after losing someone close to all of us but now it feels like we're competing over who's processing 'better' and I don't know if we should keep meeting or if this is just what group grief looks like.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The vulnerable space created for shared processing has become infiltrated by ego patterns that obstruct the very healing it was meant to facilitate.

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