Read "The Promise of Post-Traumatic Growth Part I" here.
What do you imagine post-traumatic growth looks like? Feeling stronger in the face of a new challenge, knowing we’ve already overcome the worst that life can throw at us? Being more grateful for the little things? More connected to our friends and family? Finding new perspective and priorities? Or maybe having a deeper sense of the mystery and sanctity of life?
The answer is all of the above. In the first part of our article “The Promise of Post-Traumatic Growth” we discussed the four factors that predict whether someone is likely to experience adversity as a catalyst for growth. In this article, we examine what that growth looks like. And, because that’s the way we roll at Echo, we’ve combined the information from both articles in one easy-to-read infographic.
The Five-Domains of Post-Traumatic Growth
Right now, approximately 50% of you who have experienced trauma are reading this and saying, “I’m supposed to be grateful for all the crud that happened to me? Each day, I struggle for even a modicum of what other people take for granted. There’s no amount of ‘growth’ that can stop me wishing this hadn’t been my life.”
Post-traumatic growth is not a given. We’re not going to gloss over the long arduous road to recovery from trauma that for the most part does not feel victorious or courageous for those who are on it. However, at least 50% of survivors have found that they can begin to define themselves and their communities by their strengths and that in no small way these strengths have been forged by adversity.
Click here to continue reading more about the five-domains of post-traumatic growth.
Hear more about post-traumatic growth at our Changing the Paradigm Conference 2018: Frontiers of Resilience, where Jim Rendon will be discussing his book ‘Upside’ in which he interviewed Tedeschi and Calhoun, the foremost researchers in this field, and others whose stories exemplify the power of the human spirit to not just overcome but grow from trauma.
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