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When spiritual groups struggle with boundaries around personal sharing

Our meditation group has been sitting together for two years and we've developed real intimacy around practice but now one member is going through a divorce and sharing intensely personal things that make the rest of us uncomfortable, and we don't know how to address it without abandoning her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Sacred containers can be disrupted when individual crisis exceeds the group's capacity while maintaining compassion for all members.

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