Post-Traumatic Growth: Rebuilding After Trauma

About this episode

This episode explores how individuals can experience growth after trauma through meaningful connections and support.

Episode 91: People can grow in meaningful ways after trauma. In this episode, host and psychotherapist Debra Sloss, explores the concept of Post-Traumatic Growth with Richard G. Tedeschi, PhD, one of the researchers who coined the term, and Assemblymember Gail Pellerin, who shares how losing her husband to suicide shaped her life and public service. Beginning with a moving opening story from Holocaust survivor Gitta Ryle we then explore how people make meaning after trauma, why suffering and growth can coexist, and how connection, purpose, and support can help people rebuild after profound suffering.

People in this episode

Host: Debra Sloss

Guests: Richard G. Tedeschi, Gail Pellerin

Topics covered

• Post-Traumatic Growth
• trauma recovery
• meaning making
• suffering and growth
• connection and support

Keywords

• Post-Traumatic Growth
• trauma
• recovery
• meaning
• suffering
• support
• connection

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