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
Why I'm Pausing My Top 100 Podcast And What My Body Knew Long Before I Did
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About this episode: What does it actually cost you to keep going when your body has been quietly saying stop for months? In this honest, unfiltered episode, I'm sharing why Writing Your Resilience is taking a break through the end of 2026 even as the podcast has surpassed 52,000 listens and landed in the top 100 for writers and artists on Feedspot. This isn't a burnout story. It's a story about what happens when you ignore your sacral knowing, suppress your inner voice, and unintentionally censor not just your podcast, but your entire creative voice. I talk about grief, mold, exhaustion, shadow work, and the paradigm shift I'm calling leading from being and I invite you to ask yourself what signal you've been filing under someday. If you're a creative person who is tired, flat, or quietly out of alignment with what your soul is actually calling for, this one is for you.
Episode Highlights
- 00:00 Soul Deep Exhaustion
- 04:44 Announcing The Hiatus
- 05:38 Hard Summer Events
- 16:53 Retreat Shadow Realization
- 22:11 Reclaiming Your Voice
- 27:16 Staying Connected During Break
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Lisa’s Bio: Lisa Cooper Ellison is an award-winning writer, speaker, trauma-informed creativity and empowerment coach, and host of the Writing Your Resilience podcast. Working at the intersection of storytelling, healing, and human design, she blends two decades of clinical expertise, soul-centered practices, including Akashic Records work, guided imagery, and meditation, with deep creative mentorship to help people reauthor their lives from the inside out. Her work as a story alchemist helps people transform the heaviest, most resistant chapters of their lives into clarity, creative power, and sovereign self-expression. Her essays on sibling loss, grief, trauma healing, and the craft of writing have appeared in The New York Times, HuffPost, and The Loss of a Lifetime, among others. Her podcast, Writing Your Resilience, ranks in the top 100 on FeedSpot and has been described by listeners as “smart, rich, inspiring, and chicken soup for the tender soul.”
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