Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing
The Writing Your Resilience Podcast is for anyone who wants to use the writing process to flip the script on the stories they’ve been telling themselves, because when we tell better stories about ourselves, we live better lives.
Every Thursday, host Lisa Cooper Ellison, an author, speaker, trauma-informed writing coach, and trauma survivor diagnosed with complex PTSD, interviews writers of tough, true stories, people who've developed incredible grit, and professionals in the field of psychology and healing who've studied resilience.
Over the past 7 years Lisa has taught writers how to write their resilience. Each time her clients and students have confronted the stories that no longer serve them, they’ve felt a little safer, become a little braver, and revealed more of their true selves. Now, with this podcast, she is creating a space for you to do this work too.
Equal parts instruction, motivation, and helpful guide, Writing Your Resilience is an opportunity for you to join a community of writers and professionals doing the work that helps us cultivate our authenticity and creativity.
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Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing
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Fan Mail
Lisa, I just finished listening to the episode with Stacey Simmons. WOW! Her knowledge and its articulation, yours as well, your skills at creating such an organic, informative dialogue, and of course the topic itself -- so powerful for those of us who have survived trauma and find ourselves still on a journey to integrate it, even in some in our senior years, like me. By the way, the context for my location this morning enhanced the experience tremendously. I’m here at my family beach house spending five days on a self-created writing retreat. This morning we’ve got whipping rain and winds swirling the trees and knocking at the windows. Quite dramatic! Thanks again, Lisa. With affection, Stephanie
Amherst, Massachusetts
