Jim Rendon: The New Science of Post-Traumatic Growth
Underground Wellness Radio
Sean Croxton
4.6 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2015
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Jim Rendon — author of Upside: The New Science of Post-Traumatic Growth — discusses exciting, new research on how traumatic experiences can be opportunities for personal transformation.
Here's what we talked about:
2:15 – The amazing story of Jim’s father and how it got him interested in what happens to us after we survive trauma.
11:37 – The surprising responses from prisoners of war and combat veterans that started the study of post-traumatic growth, and why it hadn’t really been studied before.
15:46 – The 5 distinct areas of post-traumatic growth, why they’re so hard to measure and the ways we try to measure them anyway.
20:29 – PTSD: what goes on in the brain and the body after trauma, and how we can manage it to help post-traumatic growth.
25:47 – What is trauma? The complicated nature of trauma and why we never think it’s going to happen to us.
29:31 – Deliberate rumination: how to turn a traumatic ordeal into an opportunity for transformation.
36:13 – The importance of social support in healing, what to do if you aren’t getting the kind of support you need and how to give better support to loved ones.
40:35 – Alternative therapies: the many different paths to healing and understanding trauma.
44:05 – A real life story about the power of perseverance and a positive attitude in post-traumatic growth.
55:32 – Your life story: why who we are has changed and will change again over time…whether it’s with trauma or without.
57:49 – Do we need post-traumatic growth to be happy? How trauma gives our lives more meaning, even when it doesn’t happen directly to us.
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| 0:00.0 | It's episode 338 of Underground Wellness Radio. Here's what's coming up. |
| 0:04.6 | You can get PTSD and grow. Having PTSD does not preclude you from growing, and in fact, |
| 0:10.2 | many people have PTSD do grow. So, you know, the suffering is kind of the catalyst for the positive |
| 0:16.4 | change. And the DSM, every time it comes out, they have a different set of criteria for what is |
| 0:23.4 | considered traumatic for causing PTSD. |
| 0:26.4 | And I think that's just reflective of how complicated it is to determine what's traumatic. |
| 0:31.5 | It's just because you've gotten fairly settled in the last narrative you had doesn't mean |
| 0:36.9 | it's going to be the last narrative you ever have. |
| 0:49.1 | Yo, what's up, y'all? Welcome back to another episode of Underground Wellness Radio, brought to you by |
| 0:53.8 | Underground Wellness.com. Thank you so much for tuning and got a brand new topic for you something we've never |
| 1:00.0 | covered before we're talking about post traumatic growth not PTSD well we do talk a little bit about |
| 1:06.0 | PTSD but post traumatic growth how people go through some of the most horrible traumas and come out |
| 1:12.2 | the other side, much better people. I learned about this topic maybe three months ago and just fascinating, |
| 1:19.5 | just a fascinating topic. And I pre-ordered Jim Rendon's book upside the new science of post-traumatic |
| 1:25.8 | growth. And when it finally arrived, I dug right into it. |
| 1:29.1 | And I got maybe two chapters in. I sent him an email. I was like, Jim, you got to come on a |
| 1:32.0 | podcast and talk about it. And it's a book with so many remarkable stories. And I highly recommend |
| 1:39.1 | that everybody listening to this podcast, read it because, gosh, the things that people have |
| 1:43.9 | been through and what |
| 1:44.5 | they've overcome is just, it's just amazing to me. And so without further ado, here's Jim. |
| 1:50.5 | Jim, welcome Underground Wellness Radio. Great. Thanks, Sean. Hey, thanks for being here. As I told you |
| 1:56.1 | before we started recording, I love your book. This is actually a relatively like new topic for me. I was reading |
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