How to grow as a person?

[Greydove28]

How do you feel you can grow as a person?

Or give an example of what made you grow as a person?

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Overcoming challenges especially the ones I didn’t think I could.

Time, difficult and painful things, loss, motherhood, marriage.

Doing hard things - therapy, ending my marriage, going back to work after twelve years as a SAHM, starting and closing businesses, being with my parents when they died, giving up alcohol.

It’s like exercising muscles - you get little tears that hurt at the time, but when they heal, they grow.

Holding someone's hand as they die changes you forever.

Challenge yourself. Do a personal inventory of personal qualities and skills and choose a few to develop. Maybe patience, generosity, or honesty.

Meditation and therapy.

Having children too.

You don't have to 2qit for crap situations to grow as a person.

If you work, look for things of interest that take you out of your comfort zone. Join diversity and inclusion campaigns, lead meetings, present, be a mentor etc.

Charity work. Find something you are interested in. E.g people, environment etc.

Make a list of subjects that Interest you and then read around the subject.

Mediatate. If you like exercise such as running, enter a race. Take a martial arts.

*wait

Bereavement
Therapy
Accepting change
Accepting yourself
Embracing interests and retaining a curiosity about the world

Meditation

Pushing myself outside of my comfort zone.

Having really honest, open conversations with people where I share what I actually think and feel.

Reading.

Life. I couldn't pin point one moment in time or one specific scenario in which I think I've 'grown' though I can look back and see that I'm not the exact same person I was 5 years ago. I feel growth is just a very natural thing that happens gradually through all of life's moments.

I think it often comes from getting out of your comfort zone. Sometimes this happens because of a negative push like a hard life event, and sometimes it’s a positive pull because you choose to challenge yourself. Both can lead to growth.

Life, being open minded, accepting other people do things differently , willingness to accept when you are wrong , being independent , questioning the status quo.

Mostly time intensified by overcoming or even just surviving difficulties
I have also found writing & journalling very helpful

There are some podcasts that have really changed the way I see things and made me grow as a person by understanding myself differently.

Challenge fears, self question my behaviour, love and care for myself

Learn about the natural world. Open your eyes.

Getting a life coach.