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Find purpose and growth in experiences of suffering. Hardship can destroy—or it can transform. The difference often lies in meaning-making: the process of finding purpose, understanding, or growth in painful experiences. This isn't minimizing suffering; it's metabolizing it. Meaning-Making After Hardship provides frameworks for finding meaning in difficult experiences. You'll understand post-traumatic growth research, learn how meaning-making differs from toxic positivity, and develop practices for integrating hardship into a meaningful life narrative. Drawing from meaning-making research, existential psychology, and post-traumatic growth studies, the course balances honoring suffering with growing beyond it. Through our ACT Triangle methodology, you'll engage in meaning-making during the course. You'll process difficult experiences, identify potential growth areas, and develop a life narrative that integrates rather than denies hardship. Because suffering can be purposeless—or it can become a source of wisdom and compassion.