The Final Phase of Post-Traumatic Growth: Transformation and Purpose Sep 02, 2025

Everything is realised little by little.

Charles Baudelaire

After navigating through the shadows of trauma and the deep work of recovery, there comes a powerful shift—a transformation. This final phase, as described by Dr. Edith Shiro in her work on post-traumatic growth, is not the end of healing...

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The Integration Phase: Becoming Whole Again Aug 30, 2025

I no longer feed my trauma

 I now see what’s possible — because it no longer controls my life.

After awareness, safety, awakening and becoming…
comes integration — the phase where everything starts to land.

It’s not the end of the journey.
But it’s where things begin to settle.
Where fragments re...

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Phase of Becoming – A New Narrative Aug 25, 2025

Rewriting your story begins by reconnecting with your inner truth

Loss frees you — in the empty space left behind, anything can happen.
Something out of nothing.”

— Raynor Winn

 

 

From surviving to shaping: a new story begins

The third phase in the process of post-traumatic growth is a gentle ...

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Phase of Awakening — Safety and Protection Aug 13, 2025

 Before we can grow, we must feel safe. Not just safe from the world, but safe within ourselves.

 

I believe
the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone
is to be seen,
heard,
understood
and touched by them.

The greatest gift I can give
is to see,
hear,
understand
and touch another pe...

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Awareness & radical acceptance — The First Step Toward Post-Traumatic Growth Aug 01, 2025

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives.

It is the one that is most adaptable to change”

Charles Darwin  

Awareness is not clarity. It’s the beginning of it. After a one-time traumatic event, the world may keep turning — but yours has stopped....

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The 5 Phases of Post-Traumatic Growth Jul 26, 2025

A roadmap for recovery

When everything feels uncertain. After trauma, clarity often disappears.
 

What remains is confusion. Silence. The sense that everything has changed — but no one handed you a map. That’s exactly why I work with the five-phase model of post-traumatic growth, developed by ...

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What’s inside ‘Stronger Than Your Trauma – How to transform from victim to hero’ Jul 21, 2025

A practical guide

A structured process. A different kind of trauma book. Not just a book you read. A book you work with

 

There are many books about trauma
 

Scientific. Clinical. Theoretical. Stronger Than Your Trauma – How to transform from victim to hero is different.  It’s written for you — s...

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Why I wrote 'Stronger Than Your Trauma – How to transform from victim to hero' Jul 15, 2025

 ‘Life can be understood backwards but must be lived forwards.’  Søren Kierkegaard

When one moment changes everything

Deeply woven into the fabric of our lives are moments that strike unexpectedly. A car accident. A violent confrontation. An unexpected loss... Moments that divide your life into a ...

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