What we Become | Post-Traumatic Growth and the Caregiver’s Hidden Transformation

Psychologists Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun spent decades studying what happens to people after they survive something they did not think they could survive. What they found was not what most people expect. Post-traumatic growth is documented in caregivers. It is documented in the people living with the diagnosis. It happens to both people in the room, and it does not require the hard thing to be over first. This is Video 4 in the series "We Have to Tell What's Happening." Heather Robbins, founder of Robbins Nest Alliance and full-time caregiver for her husband Rob, a decorated Special Forces medic living with Parkinson's, dementia, aphasia, FND, and probable CTE, talks about what caregiving builds. Not what it costs. What it builds. Watch the full series: Video 1 -- When the Words Won't Come (Aphasia):    • When the Words Won’t Come: Aphasia, From t...   Video 2 -- Ambiguous Loss:    • The Part Nobody Sees | Ambiguous Loss and ...   Video 3 -- We Still Go Out:    • We Still Go Out | Fighting Homebound as a ...   Video 4 -- What We Become (you are here) Everything at Robbins Nest Alliance is free and peer-reviewed. If you are navigating brain injury, neurological disease, or caregiving in any form, it was built for you. Read the companion article with peer-reviewed citations: https://robbinsnestalliance.com/blogs... Visit Robbins Nest Alliance: https://robbinsnestalliance.com Support free caregiver education: https://robbinsnestalliance.com/pages... Newsletter (From the Nest, every Wednesday): https://heather-at-robbins-nest-allia...