Post-Traumatic Growth and Meaning after Loss

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Julia Samuel MBE
4 min videoWritten by a grief psychotherapist
It feels almost wrong to ask. Can anything good come from losing someone you love? You'd never wish for the pain. And yet, somewhere along the way, something in you might start to shift.

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3 min 58 sec · Filmed Grief Works conversation
In this video, Julia explains what research shows about post-traumatic growth: how grief can change your sense of what matters, why you may discover strength you didn't know you had, and what it really means to build a "new normal" without leaving your past behind.

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Julia Samuel MBE

Psychotherapist and co-creator of Grief Works

One of the world's most respected grief psychotherapists, with over 35 years' experience. Former Vice President of the BACP, MBE for services to the bereaved, Founder Patron of Child Bereavement UK, and bestselling author of Grief Works and This Too Shall Pass.

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