This week we are diving into how sometimes helping others can be a distraction from our own feelings and emotions. I know for me I have used Fostering dogs as a distraction/coping mechanism for my own pain and feelings throughout our fertility journey (and I am sure this stems back farther than that). The idea that helping someone else gives you this sense of purpose, belonging, validation, acceptance - its makes you feel needed/wanted which is a powerful thing. I think a lot of us can get caught up in this need to go out and do things for others to feel something more, to be granted love and acceptance from others, but ultimately we are then left with an extra empty cup and a lot of heavy emotions that we don't know how to deal with because we are so used to avoiding our own pain.