In the process of healing trauma, one of the most important things to do is to build on our neuroplasticity. Even though trauma freezes us in a painful past, we have the power to create new neural-pathways —which essentially means we can create new stories, new options, new possibilities.

Part of the opportunity and power of this moment, the initiation that we are being asked to go through, involves learning how to NOT do—at least not in the same ways we have for so long. Not doing is not simply passive, it is not a nihilistic throwing up of our hands in despair or cynicism.