In order to experience post-traumatic growth, the set of circumstances you face needs to seriously challenge your understanding of the world and your place in it. The trauma shatters previously held ideas, overwhelms your initial capacity to cope, and you need to reconstruct a new narrative with that experience as part of your life. After struggling with a major life crisis or traumatic event, it is indeed possible to experience positive growth. This kind of positive change and growth tends to occur in one of five different areas, experts say: how you relate to others, embracing new possibilities, personal strength, spiritual change, and a newfound appreciation of life

Guest: Paula Quinsee – Relationship Expert