First and foremost, our research highlights the importance of understanding and ending sexual assault. Our existing studies already demonstrate the outsized role that sexual assault has in shaping the lives and experience of survivors; however, the ubiquity of sexual assault, and the huge role of sexual assault in PTSD development, is not yet appreciated. We hope that our work will highlight this. Second, we describe a simple and useful model to study resilience to trauma. PTSD studies to date have focused on the severity of PTSD, or case-control status, without taking trauma into account. Our model may be easily applied to a range of trauma types and cohorts. Third, by identifying genetic, epigenetic, and environmental predictors of resilience, we hope to understand the biological mechanisms of PTSD and wellness. Identifying these mechanisms and pathways will allow us to improve care for survivors, and hopefully to develop new therapeutics and interventions.