A Personal Perspective: Why it's vital to struggle at times, how I've grown from hardship, and why you can too.
matters in success. Character is not formed out of smart people. It is out of people who have suffered. I wish upon you pain and suffering.”Getting beat up by life—periodically, of course, with some time in between to recover—may just save your life. Hard times can strengthen us, and when we're strong, it increases our capacity to celebrate and enjoy our lives.
I can relate to struggle. Despite the many privileges I've been blessed with, I’ve had my share of difficult experiences. In retrospect, I'm grateful for this. I grew up with a speech impediment and an auditory-processing learning disorder and was bullied constantly in elementary, middle, and high school. I used to be afraid of answering the phone because I feared I could not say"hello" in time before the person calling would hang up from the silence on my end.
Human nature is to be resilient. It turns out resilience and PTG can be summarized down to certain skills, practices, and traits that we can cultivate, develop, and strengthen with time, in and out of. Personally, I've noticed how the hardship I've faced above has helped me connect to the pain of others, especially my clients. I think I'm a better therapist, largely because I survived and grew from thetrauma I faced.
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