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Speaker 1: This is a Happy Family's podcast with doctor Justin Coolson.

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Speaker 1: We are Luke and Susie and this is the podcast

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Speaker 1: for time poor parents who just want answers now.

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Speaker 2: And we recently got that brand new book of his

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Speaker 2: Nine Ways to a Resilient Child, and it's excellent. I'm

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Speaker 2: really I'm going through just very slowly. I know I

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Speaker 2: haven't let you get your hands on it quite let

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Speaker 2: me hear it yet, but it's one of those ones

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Speaker 2: that I really want to make sure I give good

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Speaker 2: time too. But I want to address something from the

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Speaker 2: very first chapter of this book with Justin today if

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Speaker 2: we can, Justin, welcome to the show. Thanks for having

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Speaker 2: a chat to us again today.

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Speaker 3: Can you tell all your guests to be your favorite,

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Speaker 3: don't you?

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Speaker 1: Well, I can promise you she doesn't have all our

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Speaker 1: quickly jot together Nine Ways to a Resilient Husband when

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Speaker 1: your when your wife won't let you have the book.

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Speaker 3: Please to get you a copy to put a blog

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Speaker 2: Luke, the man's version and the dad's version of mum's version.

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Speaker 2: But in the very first chapter of this book, there's

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Speaker 2: a phrase that you use that has absolutely captivated me.

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Speaker 2: It's post traumatic growth. Now, we're very familiar with the

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Speaker 2: term post traumatic stress disorder, which we hear quite frequently

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Speaker 2: in a number of circumstances that people face in their life.

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Speaker 2: But can you talk to us a bit about post

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Speaker 2: traumatic growth?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if I was to give you a five second overview.

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Speaker 3: But instead of getting anxious and stressed when trauma occurs

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Speaker 3: in our lives, we grow through it. Actually we grow

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Speaker 3: because of it. It strengthens us. It makes us into better, stronger,

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Speaker 3: more resilient people. The trauma, rather than driving us into

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Speaker 3: the ground, turns us into better people.

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Speaker 2: We are talking post traumatic growth today with doctor Justin Coulson.

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Speaker 4: More shortly, most children are born curious and confident. They

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Speaker 4: love to explore the world, new friends, and try new things.

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Speaker 2: Yet the Happy Families Podcast with doctor Justin Coulson, as

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Speaker 2: we discuss this phrase that you've talked about in your

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Speaker 2: book Nine Ways to a Resilient Child post Traumatic Growth.

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Speaker 2: I loved seeing this phrase because I think for me

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Speaker 2: it reframed the concept of the traumatic circumstances that we face.

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Speaker 2: And I know, we know that there are some traumas

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Speaker 2: that we face in our life that seem to break us.

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Speaker 2: But to have that option to not go towards the stress,

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Speaker 2: but to move towards the growth. Just even creating that

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Speaker 2: language seems to create another option of how we do

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Speaker 2: with the traumas that we face. And you know that

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Speaker 2: there are some people who face incredible trauma and they

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Speaker 2: have this incredible bounce back. And you actually spoke about

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Speaker 2: one of those people in your book, and Rosy Baddy,

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Speaker 2: who had this incredible response to a trauma that no

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Speaker 2: parent would ever want to would ever want to face.

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Speaker 2: But how do we become a Rosy Baddy when we

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Speaker 2: face our traumas.

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Speaker 3: Justin's there's two quotes that immediately spring to mind. One

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Speaker 3: of them, one of them I've written in the front

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Speaker 3: of the book, where I dedicated the book to my

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Speaker 3: daughter's I said, when life puts you in a tight spot,

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Speaker 3: don't ask why me, Instead stand tall and say try me.

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Speaker 3: There's something about looking at trauma face to face, and

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Speaker 3: I noted that sometimes it's easy to say this when

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Speaker 3: you're not in the middle of the trauma. But there's

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Speaker 3: there's something incredibly powerful when we look at something and say,

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Speaker 3: I know that there is something in this for me

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Speaker 3: to learn. I know that this will be a blessing

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Speaker 3: to me. I know that this will somehow help me.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes we can't see that, and other times we can.

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Speaker 3: There's a wonderful old Christian him and the name of

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Speaker 3: It's just my mind. But one of the lines in

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Speaker 3: it says, I do not ask to see the distance

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Speaker 3: scene one step enough for me. It's called Lead Kindly Light,

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Speaker 3: and it was written by a guy who'd been out

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Speaker 3: stuck on the seed. There was no wind for days,

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Speaker 3: there was no food, there was no water. Everyone was sick.

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Speaker 3: He really thought he was going to die. And he

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Speaker 3: wrote this thing as he faced this tremendous adversity, thinking

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Speaker 3: essentially saying was he's not really worried about what's going

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Speaker 3: able to take one step at a time, knowing that

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Speaker 3: everything that's happening to him will will strengthen him and

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Speaker 3: help him to div That's an incredibly resilient mindset, whether

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Speaker 3: or not you have a Christian background or not, it's

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Speaker 3: a powerful mindset because when we look at the adversities

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Speaker 3: we face, or when we talk to our kids about

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Speaker 3: the challenges they're facing, it's really amazing to say, well,

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Speaker 3: I wonder what we can learn from this. I love

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Speaker 3: the quote by a guy called Epictitis. When I say

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Speaker 3: a guy, I mean he lived a couple of thousand

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Speaker 3: years ago. He was a stoic philosopher and epic Titus

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Speaker 3: said people are not disturbed by things, but by the

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Speaker 3: view they take of them.

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Speaker 1: I just this is such a big perspective thing to think.

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Speaker 1: If we're facing a trial right now thinking about post

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Speaker 1: traumatic stress disorder versus thinking about the opportunity for post

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Speaker 1: traumatic growth, like I imagine, it would significantly change our

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Speaker 1: tenacity and our willingness to have the fight justin.

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Speaker 3: That's the idea, and that's why I've written about these

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Speaker 3: things in the book. You know, if you want to,

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Speaker 3: let's say you want to become a better bike rider,

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Speaker 3: you don't ride along the floor or downhill. You get

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Speaker 3: on that bike and you're right uphill because that's what

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Speaker 3: strengthens you. And when we look at the adversities that

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Speaker 3: we face in life as a character building, strengthening activity

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Speaker 3: and exercise, I think that we can actually say quite clearly,

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Speaker 3: if we look at our own lives, I am who

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Speaker 3: I am today because of the challenges that I've worked through,

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Speaker 3: because of the challenges that I've overcome. And that's a

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Speaker 3: that's a wonderful, resilience bursting way of looking at life

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Speaker 3: once again, because it says I can grow through adversity,

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Speaker 3: I can grow through trauma, and I can do more

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Speaker 3: with my life because what I'm going through right now

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Speaker 3: is awful. This is going to help me later on.

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Speaker 2: It's so very very good. I think you need to

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Speaker 2: relabel that book by the way, nine Ways to Becoming

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Speaker 2: more Resilient, because I think anybody who reads it will

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Speaker 2: will develop those skills as well.

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Speaker 1: Just for yeah, just change the title and resell it justinat.

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Speaker 2: Nine Ways Zillient Child. Author Justin Coulson is our guests

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Speaker 2: today from Happy Families dot com do AU. We really

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Speaker 2: appreciate I love the phrase post traumatic growth.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much, my pleasure.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for chatting of course, for that book Nine Ways

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Speaker 2: to a Resilient Child and more books, podcasts, and programs,

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Speaker 2: visit happy families dot com dot au. Or if you're

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