Grief is an interesting beast.  It can curl up inside of you and make itself quite cozy.  It can unpack its bags, put up the do not disturb sign on the door and lock itself in.  It’s pretty much guaranteed that we will all experience grief at some point.  And we can ignore grief, befriend it, or take it out for a walk every now and then.  The relationship we have with grief is entirely up to us.  My guest today, Lisa Cooper Ellison is an author, speaker, and trauma-informed writing coach who helps people navigate, process, and maybe even befriend their grief through writing and storytelling.  She’s the host of the Writing Your Resilience podcast and works and writes at the intersection of storytelling and healing, and combines her personal experiences with suicide loss and CPTSD with her clinical training to help writers turn tough experiences into art. Her essays and stories have appeared on Risk! and in The New York Times, HuffPost, Hippocampus Literary Magazine, and Kenyon Review Online, among others. Lisa recently completed her memoir Please Stage Dive Carefully: How I Survived My Brother’s Suicide and Forgave Myself.  

Learn more about Lisa here: https://lisacooperellison.com/

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