Turning Tragedy Into Triumph

People experience injury, trauma, and sometimes a complete crisis. What do they do? Where do they go? How do they successfully manage the trauma or the crisis? How do families and loved ones help and cope? The current model of rehabilitation is insufficient. It ignores the potential for growth and fails to incorporate the survivor's personal experience of trauma and inner strengths in planning his or her recovery. MetaHabilitation© recognizes each person's inherent capacity to move forward, not in spite of the trauma but as a direct result of it. Individuals have the aptitude and inner force to move beyond basic survival and ultimately thrive. Life crises can be transformative. These unique and troubling experiences become opportunities to creatively restructure the self, find meaning, reduce suffering and allow each person to overcome and become master of his or her fate.

Extensive research and interviews with ordinary individuals who recovered from major tragedies or trauma in extraordinary ways prompted the book. This work reveals insights and provides the basis of this concept and system of recovery. Troubling and unacceptable limitations in current rehabilitative models provided the rationale and motivation for a new treatment modality -- a system that specifically recognizes and understands the uniqueness of each person's potential, inner strength, and courage to guide them and families to achieve full and complete recovery-to MetaHabilitate. Stories of MetaHabilitated survivors illuminate stages, characteristics, determining factors, and facilitating conditions that allow people to see the possibilities and turn tragedy into triumph.