Transcending Trauma Using Tough Experiences

Whether you are grieving or processing a traumatic experience, the ability to adapt your thinking and process the emotions determines success or failure. Steve Magness writes in Do Hard Things: Why we get resilience wrong and the surprising science of real toughness “The best performers [athletic and otherwise] tend to have a flexible and adaptive coping ability. They can bounce between different strategies, depending on the demands of the situation.” This makes sense to me. From nine years of living on the road, I can attest that creativity is an excellent companion to moving…