ABSTRACT
Denise Thornton used the adversities she experienced to gain new insights, re-author her personal story, and find new meaning in her life by transcending her own needs and helping others. Her journey illustrates the first skill involved with Purposing, which is to watch for new insight and meaning in life from hardships directly or indirectly generated by climate disruption. The traumas and stresses generated by climate disruption are no exception. In order to understand how the traumas and toxic stresses directly or indirectly generated by climate disruption might change readers, it is helpful to have a basic understanding of who they are today and how they came to be that person. climate disruption cannot be compared to Viktor Frankl’s experience of being in a concentration camp, as the Earth heats up will all experience increasingly significant limitations, uncertainty, and suffering over which will have little or no control.
