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When acceptance practice meets parental helplessness

I practice equanimity but my adult daughter is addicted to heroin and I cannot find any peace while she is slowly destroying herself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The instruction to remain balanced conflicts with the biological and emotional reality of watching a child suffer beyond one's ability to help.

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