Post-Traumatic Growth: How Your Brain Can Transform Trauma into Strength, Resilience, and Profound Personal Change
Introduction: The Revolutionary Science of Growth Through Suffering In 1995, psychologists Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun published a groundbreaking paper that would change how we understand human suffering forever. Studying bereaved parents, cancer survivors, and combat veterans, they discovered something remarkable: while many struggled with post-traumatic stress, a significant number reported something unexpected—they had grown through their…