As a hospice volunteer, I expected tears and anger. What I didn’t expect was the laughter and joy.
In other words, “you’re wired to feel better through doing this,” said Post.
Because I found hospice work so meaningful, I began volunteering every other week during the school year to help grieving children explore the death of a parent through therapeutic play. I also found that helping kids use play to work through their feelings around death can be joyful and, well, fun.“There’s this idea that grieving kids are sitting around a circle crying,” said Jessie Shiveler, Agrace’s community grief manager. “People don’t understand that there’s laughter here, there’s smiles, there’s a connection.”
A caveat is that acting altruistically probably won’t trigger the same reward pathways for someone who feels forced into it. And it’s possible to overdo it.“If any volunteering or care behavior gets to be too much, it can become a stressor in itself,” said Creaven.
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