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5 Practices that Lead to
Post-Traumatic
GROWTH
BY LINDA GRAHAM, MFT
L
ife is full of challenge. We can’t
avoid that. No matter how hard we try,
how earnestly we seek, or how good
we become, life throws us curveballs
and pulls the rug out from under each
and every one of us from time to time.
No one is immune from that reality
of the human condition. Bumps and
bruises, even occasional catastrophes
and crises, are so inevitable in human
experience that we don’t have to take
bad things happening to good people
so personally.
We can’t change the fact that stuff
happens. What we can change is how
we respond.
When something challenging or even
devastating happens, we have the
power — the flexibility — to choose
how we respond. It takes practice, and it
takes awareness, but that power always
lies within us.
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