Specific · Transcendence

Meaning-Making

Part of the Character Strengths Wheel

What is Meaning-Making?

The capacity to find significance and coherence in your experiences — including the difficult ones. People who make meaning from suffering do not minimise pain; they transform it.

When you might feel meaning-making

Meaning-Making is a specific form of spirituality, which itself is a type of transcendence. You might experience this feeling in situations where transcendence is present, particularly when the circumstances align with the nuances that define meaning-making.

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