When Crisis Becomes a Catalyst: Post-Traumatic Growth, Resilience, and the Tend-and-Befriend Response

Sarah discusses how major disruptions — from pandemics to personal upheaval — temporarily suspend our foundational beliefs and open a window for genuine growth. She covers the three stress response patterns (fight, flight, tend-and-befriend), the science of post-traumatic growth, why prosocial behaviour heals the nervous system, and how each of us is a constant transmitter of either hope or fear to those around us.