The shattering and sudden changes that we experience personally and collectively are culture-changing and life changing. It is the tectonic, paradigm shifting changes of revolution and war, natural and human created disasters, geopolitical standoffs that are threats to our stability, our health, and our sanity which draw the most notice and study. However, when these tectonic changes happen at the individual level, the assaults on our identity, our personality, and the way we perceive our status in the world can be equally seismic and catastrophic.