When we can offer service to someone who needs help, it feels good. However, there are healthy and unhealthy ways of helping. Helping someone because we subconsciously need to feel useful, can rob them of the satisfaction that accomplishment brings. When we become clear about our motivations for helping, we can discern if we’re actually doing it to bolster ourselves or to truly help another. Finding our identity in being of service mostly services our egos. Our actions are truly helpful when they don’t disempower the other or secretly inflate us, but joyfully fills us both with…
Gratitude.
