Society & Culture
On this weekly episode, "In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning." —Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning. Over the last year, many of us have experienced trauma. However, out of that trauma, there is a great opportunity for growth. Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun coined the term “posttraumatic growth” to capture this phenomenon, defining it as the positive psychological change that is experienced as a result of the struggle with highly challenging life circumstances. Make no doubt: trauma shakes up our world and forces us to evaluate our cherished goals and dreams. Many of our relationships start off in heaven and gradually come back to earth. That is common but not inevitable. Achieving and maintaining positive and joyous human relationships is more difficult than attaining high professional eminence, but it is still possible. The capacity for living is the capacity to make human contacts pleasurable. If we desire a harmonious relationship there must be a long-lasting enjoyment of being in contact with another person. A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life - the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave, Rajneesh. Your comfort zone is a dangerous place. It prevents you from improving, it stops you from achieving all the things you are capable of achieving and it makes you miserable. So, make a decision today to change something in your life that you are unhappy with and start experiencing positive changes. Come with me as we take a look Under The Armor. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/joshua-broomfield/support