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.
More about Lisa Cooper Ellison: https://lisacooperellison.com
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Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing
Understanding Neurodivergence with Katie Rose Guest Pryal
Katie Rose Guest Pryal joins the Writing Your Resilience Podcast to take a deep dive into what neurodiversity is and how it impacts writers.
Here are a few questions to ponder as you listen to this episode: What do you know about neurodiversity? Do you consider yourself to be neurodivergent? If you are, how does that impact the way you set up your writing life, what you write about, and how you see the world?
Katie Rose Guest Pryal, J.D., Ph.D., is a bipolar-autistic author, keynote speaker, law professor, and expert in mental health and neurodiversity. Her books include Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education, the IPPY-Gold-winning Even If You’re Broken: Bodies, Boundaries, and Mental Health, and A Light in the Tower: A New Reckoning with Mental Health in Higher Education. She writes frequently for national magazines and speaks around the country about mental health and neurodiversity. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Episode Highlights
- 2:00 Defining Neurodiversity
- 11: 00 The Power of a Diagnosis
- 15:00 The Problem of Overwhelm
- 20:00 Reclaiming the Word Selfish
- 26:00 Learn to Cope
- 31:00 Fitting into the Narrow Band of “Normal”
- 34:45 Writing and Neurodiversity
Items mentioned during this episode:
Katie’s post about overwhelm: https://www.instagram.com/p/CzbTVgJgc5L/
Compton Cowboys: https://www.instagram.com/comptoncowboys/
Contact Katie:
Substack: https://krgpryal.substack.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/krgpryal/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krgpryal/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/krgpryal
Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/krpgryal.bsky.social
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