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Growing Pains

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”

- Carl Jung -
Key Themes
  • Post-Traumatic Growth
  • Upsides Of Adversity
  • "Super-Surviving"
  • Antifragility
  • Pain As Fuel
  • Gifts In Struggle
Key Thinkers
  • Paul Bloom
  • Richard Tedeschi
  • Stephen Joseph
  • Norman Rosenthal
  • Viktor Frankl
  • Steve Leder
How [The Right Kind Of] Suffering Helps Us

By Paul Bloom

Antifragility: How We Get Stronger Via Adversity

By Big Think

PTG: Post-Traumatic Growth

By Boulder Crest Institute

The Science Of The Good That Can Come After Trauma

By Richard Tedeschi & Lawrence Calhoun

How We Can "Super-Survive" After Adversity

By David B Feldman & Lee Daniel Kravetz
More Here ►

Why We Need Pain For Us To Evolve

By Steve Leder

Finding Meaning In The Midst Of Adversity

By Viktor Frankl
More Here ►

Reframing Adversity As A “Gift”

By Normal Rosenthal

Why What Doesn't Kill Us, Makes Us Stronger

By Stephen Joseph


The world breaks everyone & afterward many are strong at the broken places.

- Ernest Hemingway


Finding Happiness After Adversity

By Adversity & the Art of Happiness

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Dark Night Of Our Soul, A Guide To Happiness: Nietzsche On Hardship & I Came Back
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By Stacey Kamer, Andrew Solomon & Ram Dass

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By Science Of People, Sounds True &  Abraham Twerski

Clips & Interviews

By Meg Jay, Sonja Lyubomirsky & The Art Of Going Inside
Insight


Next Big Idea Club
The Unexpected Gift of Trauma

full article

forbes
Positive Thinking Won't Change Your Life (Adversity Will)

full article

Huffington Post
The Surprising Benefit Of Going Through Hard Times

full article

​Scientific American
You've Heard of Post-Traumatic Stress, but What about Post-Traumatic Growth?

Full Article

Brain Pickings
Friedrich Nietzsche on Why a Fulfilling Life Requires Embracing Rather than Running from Difficulty

full article

Time
How Trauma Can Change You—For the Better

full article

HBR
Growth After Trauma

full article

CBS This Morning
Rabbi Steve Leder on the power of suffering: "It's only pain that forces us to change"

full article

New York Times
Post-Traumatic Stress’s Surprisingly Positive Flip Side

full article

Mind Body Green
Trauma Can Have A Positive Impact On Your Life. Here's How

Full Article

​Thought Catalog
16 Reasons Why Having Your Life Turned Upside Down Makes You Infinitely
Stronger

Full Article

psych Central
What Is Post-Traumatic Growth?

full article

Uplift
7 Strategies to Turn Trauma into Strength

FULL ARTICLE

D.I.Y.


Positive Psychology
The Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory

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Stephen Joseph

Adversity & Trauma As Fuel For Growth

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Martin Seligman
PTG: Becoming Stronger Than Before

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Patrick McGinnis

Experiencing a Crisis Can Cause Post-Traumatic Growth

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Book Extracts

To Survive or to Supersurvive

Taken from Supersurvivors, by David B. Feldman, PhD & Lee Daniel Kravetz.
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The Flipside of Trauma
Taken from What Doesn't Kill Us, by Stephen Joseph, PhD.
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Post-Traumatic Growth: Finding Meaning & Creativity in Adversity
Taken from Transcend, by Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD.
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The Prisoner Cannot Free Himself
Taken from More Beautiful Than Before, by Steve Leder.
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The Thumbs Must Go
Taken from
The Gift Of Adversity, by Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D.
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Why Terrible Experiences Can Also Be Good For You
Taken from Upside, by Jim Rendon.
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Introduction
Taken from Out Of The Darkness, by Steve Taylor.
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      • Live (& Let Die)
      • Paradise Lost
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      • Stoic
      • Tales Of Yesterday
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      • Friedrich Nietzsche
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