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

Why We Need Pain For Us To Evolve

By Steve Leder

Finding Meaning In The Midst Of Adversity

By Viktor Frankl

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.

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- Ernest Hemingway

Finding Happiness After Adversity

By Adversity & the Art of Happiness

Films & Trailers

Dark Night Of Our Soul, A Guide To Happiness: Nietzsche On Hardship & I Came Back

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TED Talks & Lectures

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By Stacey Kamer, Andrew Solomon & Ram Dass

Tips & Webisodes

By Science Of People, Sounds True & Abraham Twerski

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Clips & Interviews

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

Insight

Next Big Idea Club
The Unexpected Gift of Trauma

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

Huffington Post
The Surprising Benefit Of Going Through Hard Times

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

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

Time
How Trauma Can Change You—For the Better

HBR
Growth After Trauma

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

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

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

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

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psych Central
What Is Post-Traumatic Growth?

Uplift
7 Strategies to Turn Trauma into Strength

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FULL ARTICLE

D.I.Y.

Positive Psychology
The Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory

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Try The Exercise

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Stephen Joseph
Adversity & Trauma As Fuel For Growth

Martin Seligman
PTG: Becoming Stronger Than Before

Audio Clips

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.

The Flipside of Trauma
Taken from What Doesn't Kill Us, by Stephen Joseph, PhD.

Post-Traumatic Growth: Finding Meaning & Creativity in Adversity
Taken from Transcend, by Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD.

The Prisoner Cannot Free Himself
Taken from More Beautiful Than Before, by Steve Leder.

The Thumbs Must Go
Taken from The Gift Of Adversity, by Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D.

Why Terrible Experiences Can Also Be Good For You
Taken from Upside, by Jim Rendon.

Introduction
Taken from Out Of The Darkness, by Steve Taylor.