For nearly three decades, psychologists have studied a phenomenon called post-traumatic growth. It’s a kind of positive personal transformation that sometimes happens in the aftermath of a trauma, when we are radically changed by our encounters with previously unthinkable challenges and previously unimaginable pain. Post-traumatic growth can result

Trauma isn’t a difficult event; rather, it’s the imprint of an event on our brain and body. It’s what happens when we have a strong emotional response that we can’t regulate. And this can come in many forms. We tend to think trauma happens only after harrowing experiences like war or abuse, but trauma affects every single one of us in ways small

Perhaps we should instead be asking what the world would look like if a healthy imagination were, in our everyday, considered indispensable to a healthy life?