Choosing Wisdom: Strategies and Inspiration for Growing Through Life-Changing Difficulties

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We all know the saying, “That which does not kill us makes us stronger,” but is that really true? After all, for some people, traumatic experiences ultimately lead to truly debilitating outcomes. For others, though, adversity really does seem to lead to “post-traumatic growth,” where individuals move through suffering and find their lives changed in positive ways as a result. Why does this growth happen for some people and not others? How exactly does it happen? Can the positive results be purposefully replicated? Learn the answers to these questions and more in the book Choosing Wisdom: Strategies and Inspiration for Growing Through Life-Changing Difficulties, written by Margaret Plews-Ogan, Justine E. Owens, and Natalie May, here.