Post-traumatic growth often happens naturally, Tedeschi says, but it can be facilitated in five ways: through education (rethinking ourselves, our world, and our future), emotional regulation (managing our negative emotions and reflecting on successes and possibilities), disclosure (articulating what is happening and its effects), narrative

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We are all given struggle and pain in this life, and the way we choose to deal with it and the way we grow from it and the make the world a better place is legacy. Try to alchemize your pain into something that can make the world a better place, because your own perspective is what can drive you to do that.

I was talking with my husband, Jack Saul, about his work with torture survivors and asking him, “What’s the process, and how do you know when a person comes back? And what kind of coming back does a person do after they have been in solitary confinement for years, or away, dislocated, etc.?” And we began discussing that there’s something about when... See more