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
Writing that Gets Noticed with Estelle Erasmus
Welcome to season three of the Writing Your Resilience podcast! During seasons one and two, I interviewed experts and published authors who generously shared their wisdom on writing and…
"How Do You Know When Your Story Is “Finished?” Ask Me Anything with Lisa Cooper Ellison
Welcome to the last episode of Season 2! This second season has been amazing, and I am so grateful for all of the featured guests and all of you listeners. Just as I did last season, I …
It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People 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 and get su…
Addiction, Recovery, and Confronting the Good Mother Myth with Ann Batchelder
Author Ann Batchelder talks about her daughter’s struggle with addiction, their recovery journeys, the myths she had to confront, her struggle with perfectionism, and the writing tips s…
Writing about Chronic Illness and Crafting the Hybrid Memoir with Jennifer Lunden
Author, Jennifer Lunden, shares her struggles with chronic illness, the challenges of writing a hybrid memoir, especially when you’ve not trained in science writing, and the grit all wr…
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…
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 pra…
Heeding Your Inner Voice and Navigating Your Memoir's Dark Night of the Soul with Suzette Mullen
Author and writing coach, Suzette Mullen shares tips for structuring your memoir, navigating the dark night of the soul, living with integrity, and learning to listen to your inner voic…
Surviving a Social Media Witch Hunt and Threading a Theme Through Your Memoir with Natalie MacLean
Natalie MacLean joins the Writing Your Resilience podcast to talk about surviving a social media witch hunt, how it impacted her relationship with alcohol, threading a theme through her…
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…
Finding Your Voice and Crafting Stories that Ignite the Soul with Sue William Silverman
Sue William Silverman joins the Writing Your Resilience Podcast to talk about the power of creative nonfiction, how to use metaphor, masks, and language to harness its power, and how th…
How to Stop Gaslighting Yourself with Ingrid Clayton
Ingrid Clayton joins the Writing Your Resilience podcast to talk about Complex PTSD, how narcissistic abuse leads to self-gaslighting, its impact on the writing process, and how Ingrid …
Healing Through Forgiveness
Welcome to season two of the Writing Your Resilience Podcast! After celebrating season one’s fantastic interviews, I decided to kick things off right by having a fireside-style chat wi…
Ask Me Anything with Lisa Cooper Ellison
Welcome to the last episode of Season 1! This season has been amazing, and I am so grateful for all the listeners who return week after week to learn from my featured guests. After week…
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 reli…
Leaning into the Mystery of our Stories with Brett Will Taylor
Brett Will Taylor joins the Writing Your Resilience Podcast to discuss vulnerability, family stories, shamanism, and the importance of leaning into the mystery.
As you listen to this epi…
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…
Exploring The Loneliness Epidemic with Athena Dixon
Athena Dixon joins the Writing Your Resilience Podcast to discuss the multiple facets of loneliness, how to decide what is for you and what is for the public, and how to create your own…
More than True Crime with Sarah Perry
Sarah Perry joins the Writing Your Resilience Podcast to talk about the choices they made while writing their award-winning memoir, After the Eclipse, and how each decision helped them…
Embracing Our Grief with Eileen Vorbach Collins
TW: Mention of Suicide
Eileen Vorbach Collins joins the Writing Your Resilience podcast to talk about living with and writing about grief, breaking free of stigma and shame, how your str…