Hello and welcome back to the Self-Healer Soundboard. Today's episode we're going to talk about

the growth or the resilience that comes after you experience and heal from trauma. We're

often talking about the experience of our trauma or the hardship or the newness or the

difficulty and we spend much less time talking about the transformation or the growth and

the beauty and the treasure that really does come after the adversity that comes through the

adversity. Breakthroughs really do come from breakdown. So we're going to highlight here

on this episode some of those beautiful breakthroughs following a post that we did earlier this week

or last week where we did a couple slides and went through different positive aspects that do come

specifically out of adversity and through trauma. So what we're talking about is actually a term

coined in the 90s when researchers actually began to study it and what it really is is like

Gena just said it's the transformation that follows trauma or any adversity that we experience.

Now of course while this was coined in the 90s and began to be researched in the 90s many

traditions including Buddhism have talked about the positive or the growth that comes from suffering

well before the 90s. Each of you who are listening have your own life and your own life experience

that also shows you that this has been around much longer than the 90s for all of our lifetimes

for hundreds of years and centuries because hardship has been struggle has been adversity and

trauma have been and so have healing and breakthroughs and triumph. So it is important that while

these psychologists did give it a name in the 90s it allowed it to have language to be a workable

conversation and to give it a topic though it does expand much beyond that and has been expanding

beyond that even without the language and without the term. So what are the positive aspects of

trauma? I think the most important and most impactful one is self-awareness or really just the ability

to consciously see yourself your thoughts your feelings your choices your behaviors as well as

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