Download or read book Post-Traumatic Growth: Thriving in the Face of Adversity written by Brenda Ungerland and published by Chapel Hill Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of us will experience severe adversity at some point in our life. But while change is unstoppable, transformation is optional. Why will some of us keep evolving and others remain stuck? Even the worst crisis can serve as a catalyst for profound growth. Post-Traumatic Growth gives us a practical blueprint for optimal living, providing a clear roadmap from crisis to flourishing through 7 stages. It offers an expansive new perspective, tracking the inner life of everyday individuals who experienced significant breakthroughs and personally evolved in response to crisis, loss, and trauma. This life-changing book is packed with key insights, juicy examples, practical guidelines, penetrating questions and compelling exercises, structured sequentially to carry you forward through the process on your own schedule. It’s about thriving the face of adversity, coming up against the worst of it and transforming life’s most excruciating realities into experiences of emergence and growth. Post-Traumatic Growth provides invaluable tools for working through unresolved emotional issues, releasing pain, overcoming impediments, optimizing your innate strengths, and fulfilling your true potential. It’s about real people navigating through key turning points, focusing on our innately human capacity for developmental growth in the face of adversity. Evidence-based, solutions-oriented strategies with insights, questions and exercises from an experienced health psychologist and seminar leader. Sooner or later, everyone needs this book, for yourself or someone you love.