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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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 86
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Encore: The Creative Cure for Writers: Trauma-Informed Approaches for Memoir and Embracing Your Creativity with Jacob Nordby
Do you struggle to see yourself as creative? Or have you ever wondered where your creativity comes from, and how to maximize it? This week, I’m joined by Jacob Nordby, founder of A Writ…
Encore: The Power of Micro Memoir: Grief, Storytelling, and Experimentation with Amy Lin
How do you dive into the marrow of an experience we’ll all one day share, yet so many of us struggle to talk about? And how do you write into a topic so widely covered that it feels imp…
Encore: How Recovery Supports Memoir Writing and Book Marketing Tips with Laura Cathcart Robbins
Author Laura Cathcart Robbins shares book marketing tips she learned while promoting her memoir Stash: My Life in Hiding, and how recovery helped her cultivate the honesty needed to wri…
Encore: Caring for Your Nervous System and Creativity with Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Kirby Moore
Writing can be a powerful tool for healing, but when writing the tough stuff, it’s easy to get triggered and relive the experiences you’re writing about. If you’re wondering what to do …
Encore: The Power of Words: Samman Akbarzada on Finding Her Voice After Fleeing Afghanistan
Imagine working tirelessly for years to publish your first novel—only to have the moment of celebration collide with the collapse of your country. Imagine being forced to flee, leaving …
Encore: Making Meaning and Writing Toward Posttraumatic Growth with Lennie Echterling
Lennie Echterling joins the Writing Your Resilience podcast to talk about the lessons he learned from landmine survivors, the difference between empathy and toxic positivity, the import…
Encore: Navigating Complex Relationships and Writing Through Trauma with Lara Lillibridge
If you have a complicated relationship with someone, how do you write about them? Should you craft a linear memoir that reads more like a journey or write something that mirrors your ex…
Encore: Recovering from Cults and Religious Trauma Through Writing with Tia Levings
Tia Levings joins the Writing Your Resilience Podcast to discuss her experience as a debut author, writing to heal without retraumatizing yourself, the gaslighting that happens in relig…
Encore: 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 lis…
Encore: It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic Abuse with Dr. Ramani Durvasula
Dr. Ramani Durvasula, author of It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People, shares her insights into narcissism, how narcissistic abuse survivors can heal, how to ge…
Writing for an Audience Without Losing Yourself: Trauma-Informed Storytelling with Beth Docherty
What does it mean to write the truth when your story includes trauma—and how do you do it without retraumatizing yourself or your readers?
That’s what I’ll explore with this week’s guest…
Disrupting the Inner Critic: Dr. Risa Ryger on Writing, Change, and the Self-Owned Mindset
This is the 75th episode of the Writing and Resilience Podcast, and I would not have made it this far without your generous support of this podcast and my work. Thank you from the botto…
Unlock Creative Flow with Qigong: Somatic Practices for Writers with Jay DeMaio
Have you ever felt like your creativity is blocked—but you know the problem isn’t your ideas, your schedule, or even your writing practice? What if your nervous system holds the key to …
Why Writing Is Still Worth It: Sean Murphy on Endurance, Inspiration, and Literary Citizenship
In this episode, I reconnect with the brilliant and multifaceted Sean Murphy—poet, fiction writer, founder of 1455 Literary Arts, director of the Center for Story at Shenandoah Universi…
Using Human Design to Break Through Writing Blocks and Find Flow with Maha Mamish
Have you ever wondered what truly drives you? Are there parts of your personality that leave you puzzled, making you ask, "Why do I do that?" Have you been trying to improve an aspect o…
Bringing Light to History: Amy Fish and the Journey of One in Six Million
Six years ago, Amy Fish and I sat at a table in a hotel ballroom during the HippoCamp Writing Conference when she told me about her latest book idea. As soon as I heard about it, I said…
Building a Writing Career Without Social Media: Amelia Hruby on Creative Independence
When was the last time you examined your relationship to social media? During this week’s episode, I speak with Amelia Hruby, host of the Off the Grid podcast, a show that helps busines…
Deep Memoir Writing: 3 Stages of Transformation Every Writer Should Know with Jennifer Selig
In today’s episode, join me and Jennifer Selig as we explore how memoir writing can be a powerful tool for healing and self-discovery. Learn how Jennifer’s unique blend of depth psychol…
Finding Your Form: Kelly McMasters on Writing Memoir in Essays and Emotional Truth
What happens when a story won’t stay linear—when your life fractures in ways that defy neat beginnings, middles, and ends?
In this episode of Writing Your Resilience, I sit down with ess…
Embracing Your Weirdness: Allison Landa on Self-Acceptance and Social Stigma
What makes you weird? Is it something that fills you with pride or something you try to hide, a secret you’re constantly working to cover up? In today’s episode, I’m beyond excited to s…