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When grief-born generosity becomes overwhelming

I started a small scholarship fund after my daughter died in a car accident and now other grieving parents keep reaching out to me for support, but their pain just reopens my wound and I don't know how to help without drowning.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Acts of service created from personal loss can attract more pain than the grieving person has capacity to hold.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Buddhist merit and the ripple of good action?”

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