3 Ways to Encourage Post-Traumatic Growth in Your Clients

We can help clients to experience post-traumatic growth and feel better about their lives by establishing a sense of benefit (however hard that might be to see at first) from their current or past trials.

Character is built through experience. I this video I'll share 3 therapy strategies which help your client reflect on what they have learnt from their troubles and find post traumatic growth.

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00:00 Introduction
00:42 The impact of suffering
01:09 The story of the King's Beggar
05:05 Learning from tough times
06:45 The power of 'antifragile'
08:12 3 strategies to help clients benefit from post-traumatic growth
08:22 1. What did they learn?
10:25 2. Talk about powerful crux points
12:09 3. Use metaphor to encourage post-traumatic growth

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[jojodaisy]

THANKYOU SO MUCH For the deep wisdom and help here. I got more help from this than all the self help books and therapy sessions I’ve had! May God bless you and the work of your hands!

[alikhalaf]

That’s absolutely useful video! Thank you for your time and effort 🙏💕

[Vanessa-gwhi]

Thank you for taking the time to make these videos, they’re so interesting and helpful!

[dorianxd]

very nice insights also looking really handsome with the beard

[Puya]

Thank you for your videos, they are helpful, but could please make a video about psychosomatic symptoms after someone had an PTSD or traumatic event? Do you have experience with clients when they had somatic symptoms right after a trauma? It would be very helpful for me and I would appreciate it

[leticiaaguilar]

Thank you for this video on how to look at negative experiences from another perspective. This was simple but powerful.

[annadw]

Talk about overwhelm- further down the track

[امةًوسطًا-ظع]

Faith
When you believe in another life, all life’s difficulties and hardships become obstacles in your way. Obstacles you overcome to achieve your goal.
Tests to show your Resilience, patience and persistence.
When we live for higher purpose, we don’t compare ourselves to others’ nor outlives to theirs.
Our goals are set. Suffering become an enjoyable task and permitted pleasure become spiritual act.
Life continues to be a process of purification or way of improving ourselves to be become better worshiper.

[anabojanovic]

Mark always reminds us of essentials: that therapists are first and foremost humans!

[rickspalding]

I've been. Meditating to not even look at the past, like a stoicism, is that bad?

[leticiaaguilar]

I have thought about hypnotist treatment but don’t know how to start finding a good practitioner that can be trusted. Do you have any recommendations for the Covina, Claremont or nearby areas ?

[Medietos]

It seems wrong to deny we are in fact damaged goods before we have found coping strategies, calmness and wisdom in the storm a way out, found healing or solution.
Becoming then a building-block for something new.
What about when one is harmed in the very crisis, burnout, and broken-down devastation - hindered in both taking care of oneself as well as one can AND in creating meaning in the suffering, building a shelter!?Again and again, inconsiderate of one's state and the additional harm they inflict, as well as the nightmare of having one's warnings and expressions of threat and stress interpreted as some kind of deliberate wicked nuisance? That's when real hell is made, and real loss of personality and reality eventually happens, and the will to live or faith that here is a way to live disappears. And self-destructivity struggles with constructivity for serious, since the decades of meaningless suffering through innumerous mistreatents and withheld professional help, dentist, therapy makes one so stressed that one harms oneself out of extreme stress and despair.

[szulakane]

I am uncomfortable with the term post-traumatic growth, because I don't want to credit the trauma. I think whatever we learn from it should be credited to us, which we could have learnt without the trauma. It's good that learning/growth happened, but let's not romanticise suffering.