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
Practicing Radical Acceptance in Your Writing Practice with Zebib Abraham
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Zebib Abraham joins the Writing Your Resilience Podcast to discuss why she writes fiction, the relationship between writing and mental health, and tools writers can use to cultivate resilience, self-compassion, and radical acceptance of themselves and their work.
Here are a few questions to ponder as you listen to this episode: Have you ever considered whether something should be written as fiction or nonfiction? Do you wonder which genre might be the most compassionate to you and allow you the freedom to explore your emotional truth? Do you know what self-compassion actually means and what it takes to cultivate it?
Zebib K. Abraham (she/her) is a writer and psychiatrist. She is a graduate of Cornell medical school and completed a Master’s in Creative Writing with distinction from the University of Edinburgh. Zebib has been published in FANTASY Magazine, The Rumpus, The Chestnut Review, Podcastle, and Necessary Fiction, among others. She is a full member of the Science Fiction and Writers Association and has been a commissioned storyteller for the Scottish Storytelling Centre. Zebib publishes under the name Z. K. Abraham, and writes film criticism in addition to her work in fiction and creative nonfiction. She is represented by C. L. Geisler at ArtHouse Literary Agency.
Episode Highlights:
- 10:00: Choosing Fiction Versus Nonfiction
- 20:30 Writing and Mental Health
- 30:00 The Inner Work of Your Writing Life
- 35:00 Understanding Radical Acceptance
- 39:30 The Challenge of Oral Storytelling
- 49:00 Tools for Being a Resilient Writer
Resources mentioned during this episode:
- Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff
- “How Can You Tell If You’re Starting Your Story in the Right Place?” by Susan DeFreitas: https://janefriedman.com/how-can-you-tell-if-youre-starting-your-story-in-the-right-place/
- “What Is Wise Mind” by Dr. Paul Green: https://www.manhattancbt.com/wise-mind-dbt/
Connect with Zebib:
- Twitter - https://twitter.com/pegasusunder1
- Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/pegasusunder.bsky.social
- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/pegasusunder
- Website: https://zkabraham.com/
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