It’s difficult to be told, or to tell ourselves, “everything happens for a reason.” Not only can it undermine and invalidate our feelings, it can also unhealthily minimize extremely tragic events and experiences.

Conversely, grief is often looked at as a set back in our lives, but what are the ways that grief and other hardships actually support our personal growth and spiritual evolution?

There has to be a middle ground between looking at life’s most difficult experiences as purely constructive or solely hurtful, and perhaps the intersection of pain and power can be found in spiritual growth.

This intersection where Angela Clement and Kevin Hughes like to work with their clients.

Angela lost her husband of 35 years to cancer in 2021, and since then has taken the complex emotions of grief and growth and used them to hold s ...