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The framing is honest — the idea that growth follows breakdown is true, but the timing matters enormously and most people writing about it are past the difficult part. What’s harder to convey is that during the breakdown it doesn’t feel like growth; it feels like things falling apart without a clear reason. The people who come through it usually have some combination of support, time, and a reason to keep going, and that’s worth naming rather than treating resilience as purely internal. There’s a discussion on https://thor-fortune.co.at about writing that acknowledges difficulty without romanticising it — the point about hindsight reshaping the story was well-made. What prompted the post?