Michaela Haas, PhD, is the author of Bouncing Forward: Transforming Bad Breaks into Breakthroughs, Atria/Enliven, October 2015, and Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, Shambhala, 2013. With a PhD in Asian studies, she has taught at the University of California Santa Barbara, the University of the West, and centers in America and Europe. She is a reporter, lecturer, and consultant. Visit my website MichaelaHaas.com!
Most people have heard of posttraumatic stress. Yet, beyond the medical community, few are aware of the evidence of post-traumatic growth. Survivors and experts begin to focus increasingly on the possibility that we could use even the most harrowing experiences for a greater good in our own life and to impact the world.