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
Crafting the Personal Essay and Resilient Editing Tips with Andrea Firth
Andrea Firth joins the Writing Your Resilience podcast to talk about what personal essays are, how writers can uncover their essay’s aboutness, and how to develop resilient editing practices. As an added bonus, she also offers writers the inside scoop on how to get published on the Brevity Blog.
Andrea’s Bio: Andrea A. Firth is a writer, editor and educator living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is an Editor at Brevity Blog and cofounder of Diablo Writers’ Workshop where she teaches creative writing and provides developmental editing. Andrea has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Saint Mary’s College of California. She was a finalist for The Missouri Review's 2021 Perkoff Prize in nonfiction, and her work has appeared in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Allium, The Coachella Review among others. Learn more about her and read her recent work at www.andreaafirth.com.
Resources Mentioned During This Episode:
The Beauty of a Busted Fruit by Natalie Diaz
Secret Words by Andrea Firth
Broken Glass by Andrea Firth
Old John by Andrea Firth
Brevity Blog Submission Guidelines
Snot-Bubble-Cry Dance Parties that Boost Your Creativity by Lisa Cooper Ellison
Looking at an Eclipse: A Braided Essay About Braided Essays by Lilly Dancyger
Episode Highlights
4:00 The Difference Between Memoir and Personal Essay
7:00 Exploring the Inciting Incident for Your Essays
14:00 Common Struggles Essayists Have: Aboutness
21:00 The Power of the Braided Essay
25:00 Resilient Editing and Workshopping
34:00 Submitting to the Brevity Blog
Connect with Andrea:
Website: https://www.diablowriters.org/andrea-a-firth/
Writing Workshops: Diablo Writers' Workshop
Instagram: @andreaafwriter
Facebook: @andrea.firth.58
LinkedIn: @andreafirth
Connect with your host, Lisa:
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