Tag: trauma
All the articles with the tag "trauma".
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Posttraumatic Growth (6/17-6/18)
Barbara Bradley Hagerty summarizes psychologists Tedeschi and Calhoun on post-traumatic growth—when trauma shatters core beliefs about justice, benevolence, or control, some people do not bounce back to baseline but rebuild worldview, goals, and friendships wholesale.
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Destiny?
Pushes on “everything happens for a reason”—how it often follows pain, tempts destiny logic, and yet collides with real grief—closing with bets on possibility and self-belief over the phrase itself.
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The Grand Illusion.
Research-informed closure essay on loving someone with borderline dynamics—abandonment fears, projection, and the limits of answers.
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Notes from Breaking Free
Jotted themes from Breaking Free—dominator vs partnership cultures, incomplete bonding and separation, trauma-informed reactions, and why interdependence needs developmental repair not just willpower.