Coaching practices for Supporting Growth After Trauma

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

  • I keep trying to "process" this alone and on some deadline I’ve set myself, and it just leaves me more overwhelmed
  • People keep telling me everything happens for a reason and that I’ll come out of this stronger, and underneath my grief it makes me feel like I’m failing at healing because I haven’t turned my pain into some neat lesson yet.
  • It’s been long enough that I can quietly admit something in me has shifted since they died
  • The life I’d assumed I’d have is just gone, and as devastating as that is, I’m quietly starting to notice doors I never would have looked at before
  • Going through the worst of it showed me exactly who actually showed up for me

Practices that may help

  1. How growth is supported (not forced)
    Growth, when it comes, is supported by safety, time, and being accompanied — never by pressure.
    Post-Traumatic Growth, Made Practical
  2. Understand what PTG is — and is not
    Growth from struggling with trauma is real, but it is not guaranteed, not required, and not a silver lining.
    Post-Traumatic Growth, Made Practical
  3. Post-Traumatic Growth, Made Practical
    Post-traumatic growth, a construct developed by researchers Tedeschi and Calhoun, refers to positive psychological change that some people experience in the struggle with major adversity, across five domains. It is a real, measured phenomenon — but it is not guaranteed, it is not the goal of suffering, and it never cancels the pain. Growth and distress frequently coexist.
  4. Look honestly for what has grown or changed for the better
    Without minimising the loss, notice any growth, change, or perspective that has emerged from it.
    Meaning Reconstruction in Grief, Made Practical
  5. Domain 2 — New possibilities
    When an old path is closed off, genuinely new directions and priorities can open.
    Post-Traumatic Growth, Made Practical
  6. Domain 1 — Deeper relationships
    Adversity can reveal who truly shows up and deepen the capacity for closeness and compassion.
    Post-Traumatic Growth, Made Practical
  7. Domain 4 — Spiritual or existential change
    Confronting limits and mortality can deepen or reshape your sense of meaning and the sacred.
    Post-Traumatic Growth, Made Practical
  8. Domain 3 — Personal strength
    Surviving what you thought you couldn’t can leave a durable sense of "I am stronger than I knew."
    Post-Traumatic Growth, Made Practical
  9. Anticipate and recognize growth from stress after the fact
    Regularly reflect on how past stressors changed you — building an evidence base for the enhancing belief.
    The Stress-Is-Enhancing Mindset
  10. Installation of the Positive Cognition
    Once distress has cleared, strengthen the preferred self-belief with bilateral stimulation.
    EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

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