Today, I want to talk about resilience—the often overlooked, yet deeply powerful, aspect of trauma recovery. Resilience, as I see it, is our ability to return to a place of “okayness” after we’ve been knocked off balance. But this process isn’t linear. It doesn’t mean we bounce back once and stay there. In reality, it’s much more like an elastic band—we can be pulled back into a trauma response again and again. Resilience is what we cultivate to keep finding our way back to o