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What Can I Do to Help?! I’m At My Limit!

With Tenku Ruff Osho recorded on May 15, 2022.

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Sometimes as much as we want to help, we feel stuck. When we see children suffering and grandmothers crying in Ukraine, our hearts break, but the enormity of suffering feels like more than we can bear. How can we meet this wall, especially when our own personal resources are low? In this talk, I’ll teach how to move from fixing to attending, from compassion fatigue to presence.

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