If A.B.U.S.E. is the map of what hurt you, L.I.G.H.T. is the map of what keeps you. What keeps your light on when life has every reason to dim it?
I built this grid the same way I built the first one — from twenty-five things that actually held me up. It exists in two versions because the same practices live in two languages: faith-based for the church and the conference room, and broad-language for the workplace, the school, the boardroom. Same framework. Different audience.
— Dr. DeAnna Lynn Nix, Founder of N.A.M.E.Circle what you already practice. Star what you want to begin. Draw lines between the squares that keep your light on. This is mine — what is yours?
The twenty-five squares are not random. Every practice on the grid lands in one (or more) of the four dimensions of wellness. This is what makes it a complete answer to A.B.U.S.E. — trauma touches all four, so the response has to as well.
The grid above and the definitions below mirror your toggle selection. Switch versions any time — the framework is the same, the words shift to meet the room.
Have you read the A.B.U.S.E. Awareness Grid? It's the companion to this one — the map of what trauma planted, what L.I.G.H.T. exists to answer. The framework only works when you hold both halves.
Read the A.B.U.S.E. Grid →