TED/TEDX TALKS

Stacey Kamer
The Best Gift I ever Survived

Andrew Solomon
Life's worst moments make us who we are

Animation

The School Of Life
How to Cope If the Worst Came to the Worst...

Ideas About...

Happiness After Struggle BY,
"Adversity & The Art Of Happiness"

Tom Reissmann
Radical Self-Care: Hitaji Aziz

Tom Reissmann
The Upside Of Divorce

Adversity
Overcoming the victim mentality

TV

Alain de Botton
Nietzsche on Hardship

POdcasts

Prof. Stephen Joseph
Adversity & Trauma As Fuel For Growth

Ideas About...

Suffering & Human Potential,
By Viktor Frankl

Viktor Frankl
Finding meaning in difficult times

Life Span LEarning
Search for Meaning in Life Today

VIKTOR FRANKL
Experiences in a Concentration Camp

Taken from Man's Search For Meaning, by Viktor W. Frankl.

Extract

Shorts

Dr. Abraham Twerski
How to never stress again

LEctures

Norman E. Rosenthal
"The Gift of Adversity"

Ideas About...

The Upside Of Adversity,
By Jim Rendon

TTBook
The positive Side of Pain (clip)

Full Episode Here

UW
The Upside of Trauma?

FILMS & TRAILERS

Tom Reissmann
Adversity & the Art of Happiness

Nicholas Carleton
I Came Back

iDEAS aBOUT...

Post-Traumatic Growth:
The Rewards That Follow Struggle

Dr. Richard Tedeschi
The Science of Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG)

Dr. Shilagh Mirgain
The benefits of 'post-traumatic growth'

Reprogramming Mind
What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us Stronger

Clips & Interviews

art of going inside
Change your response, change your karma

Ideas About...

The IMpact Of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)

KPJR Films
What We Need To Know About ACES

Health happens Here
Vincent Felitti: The Aces Study & Its IMpact

UCLA Health
Aces Can Carry On Across Generations

LEcture Clips

ram dass
Growing with Suffering

Film Clips

Sounds True
Advice For Difficult Times

Extracts

David B. Feldman
To Survive or to Supersurvive

Taken from Supersurvivors, by David B. Feldman, PhD & Lee Daniel Kravetz.

Extract

Jim Rendon
How Two Researchers Discovered the Tranformative Power of Trauma

Taken from Upside, by Jim Rendon.

Extract

Prof. Stephen Joseph
The Flipside of Trauma

Taken from What Doesn't Kill Us, by Stephen Joseph, PhD.

Extract

Norman E. Rosenthal
The gift of adversity

From The Gift Of Adversity, by Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D.

Extract

Latest

Meg Jay
resilience & overcoming adversity

Insight

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

full article

The 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

Mindbodygreen
​5 Things Healing From Terminal Cancer Taught Me About Adversity

Full Article

​THOUGHT CATALOGUE
16 REASONS WHY HAVING YOUR LIFE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN MAKES YOU INFINITELY 
STRONGER

Full Article

psychCentral
Vulnerable Yet Stronger—The Paradox of Strength

full article

D.I.Y.

Uplift
Seven Strategies to Turn Trauma into Strength

FULL ARTICLE

Audio

Joe Rogan
Adversity is what makes you

Tips

Thomas Moore
The Healing Power of Challenges

Family Tree
10 Benefits Of Emotional Brokenness

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