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Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

Lisa Cooper Ellison

94 episodes

4 days ago

Send us a text Have you ever wondered how a single moment—a glance, a mistake, a shimmering flash of memory—can hold the power of an entire story? Or how the smallest details of an ordinary life can reveal something vast about who we are and what we long for? In this episode, I talk with award-winning author Sue William Silverman about her newest book, Selected Misdemeanors: Essays at the Mercy of the Reader. Together, we explore the art of flash nonfiction—those short, revelatory pieces that...

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Send us a text Have you ever wondered how a single moment—a glance, a mistake, a shimmering flash of memory—can hold the power of an entire story? Or how the smallest details of an ordinary life can reveal something vast about who we are and what we long for? In this episode, I talk with award-winning author Sue William Silverman about her newest book, Selected Misdemeanors: Essays at the Mercy of the Reader. Together, we explore the art of flash nonfiction—those short, revelatory pieces that...

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Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

Selected Misdemeanors: Crafting Meaning in Flash Nonfiction with Sue William Silverman

Send us a text Have you ever wondered how a single moment—a glance, a mistake, a shimmering flash of memory—can hold the power of an entire story? Or how the smallest details of an ordinary life can reveal something vast about who we are and what we long for? In this episode, I talk with award-winning author Sue William Silverman about her newest book, Selected Misdemeanors: Essays at the Mercy of the Reader. Together, we explore the art of flash nonfiction—those short, revelatory pieces that...

4 days ago

40 minutes

Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

When Your Best Writing Feels Terrible: Understanding Shame, Vulnerability, and the Creative Process

Send us a text Today, we’re diving into a topic that trips up so many writers—vulnerability. How much should you share? When does honest writing become oversharing? And why does your most powerful work sometimes feel like it completely sucks? If you’ve ever been told your story isn’t raw enough—or that it’s too raw—you’re not alone. In this episode, I’ll break down the two extremes writers fall into, share a framework for finding the right kind of vulnerability, and show you how to use uncert...

1 week ago

26 minutes

Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

Metaphors That Work: How to Make Your Writing More Vivid, Emotional, and True with Kristin Sancken and Lynn Shattuck

Send us a text This week, we’re kicking off a new Editors’ Roundtable segment on the podcast, where I dig into key writing issues with the two trauma-informed editors I’m training—Kristin Sancken and Lynn Shattuck. In our first conversation, we explore metaphors—what they are, how to craft them, and how to recognize the ones that truly sing on the page. Let’s dive in. Episode Highlights 5:23: What Is a Metaphor7:15: Exercises For Creating Metaphors9:40: Metaphors We Love (or Hate)18:00: Our W...

2 weeks ago

41 minutes

Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

Showing, Telling, and the Shimmer: Finding the Scenes That Bring Your Memoir to Life with Marianna Marlowe

Send us a text Which memories shimmer inside you? Which ones refuse to let you go? Those luminous, haunting moments are often the raw ingredients of the story you’re truly meant to tell. In this episode of Writing Your Resilience, I sit down with newsletter follower and memoirist Marianna Marlowe, author of A Portrait of a Feminist as she shares how she used shimmering memories to craft her memoir-in-essays that explores memory and identity through a feminist lens. Together, we talk about her...

3 weeks ago

38 minutes

Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

Writing Grief Without Cliché: Eirinie Carson on Friendship, Loss, and The Dead Are Gods

Send us a text Have you ever wondered what it really means to grieve a friend—someone dazzling, flawed, and deeply loved? Or how laughter, silence, and even text messages can become part of the story we tell about those we’ve lost? In today’s episode of Writing Your Resilience, I talk with writer Eirinie Carson about her breathtaking debut memoir The Dead Are Gods and her forthcoming novel Bloodfire, Baby. Together, we explore how writing can both preserve and transform our grief, why it’s so...

1 month ago

37 minutes

Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

Write the Story That Sets You Free: A Behind-the-Scenes Pivot Toward Soul Alignment

Send us a text Have you ever wondered if what you’re doing is truly aligned with your soul’s purpose? Or maybe you’ve had that nagging feeling that something’s off—that you’re not quite on the right track. How do you know when it’s time to stay the course, and when it’s time to pivot so you can do more of what you love and let go of what no longer serves you? In today’s very personal episode of Writing Your Resilience, I’m taking you behind the scenes of my own writing and business life to sh...

1 month ago

45 minutes

Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

The Secret to Writing Your Best Work: Rest

Send us a text This week, we’re talking about something our culture often dismisses but your writing life desperately needs: rest. In this episode, I’ll share why rest matters, how you can create more of it—even when life feels full—and the surprising lessons I learned during my own summer break. Grab your pen and notebook and get ready to explore the radical power of doing less. Episode Highlights 1:26: Why I Decided to Take a Month Off5:30: Connecting with Your Inner Compass10:23: The 3 S’s...

1 month ago

27 minutes

Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

The Fawning Trauma Response: Ingrid Clayton on Healing People-Pleasing and Codependency

Send us a text Have you been told you’re a people pleaser or found yourself saying yes when you meant no, without even thinking about it? Have a friend who struggles to express their feelings or share their preferences? If so, you might have encountered the fawning trauma response. Join me and Ingrid Clayton, author of Fawning, and the memoir Believing Me, as we unpack the misconceptions regarding this trauma response, share our experience, strength, and hope, and show you how to join the unf...

1 month ago

56 minutes

Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

Encore: The Creative Cure for Writers: Trauma-Informed Approaches for Memoir and Embracing Your Creativity with Jacob Nordby

Send us a text 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 Writing Room Collective and author of Blessed are the Weird: A Manifesto for Creatives, and The Creative Cure, a powerful guide to reconnecting with your creative self. In this week’s episode, Jacob and I dive deep into the healing power of creativity, trauma, and the inner wisdom we all carry within...

2 months ago

41 minutes

Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

Encore: The Power of Micro Memoir: Grief, Storytelling, and Experimentation with Amy Lin

Send us a text 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 impossible to say something new? Today, I’m joined by Amy Lin, author of the stunning micro memoir Here After, as we tackle these questions head-on. Together, we’ll explore the raw realities of grief, how Amy’s memoir acts as a powerful container for this universal experience, the magic of the micro...

2 months ago

56 minutes

Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

Encore: How Recovery Supports Memoir Writing and Book Marketing Tips with Laura Cathcart Robbins

Send us a text 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 write her memoir. Laura’s Bio: Laura Cathcart Robbins is the best-selling author of the Atria/Simon & Schuster memoir, Stash, My Life In Hiding, and host of the popular podcast, The Only One In The Room. She has been active for many years as a speaker and school trustee and is credited for...

2 months ago

58 minutes

Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

Encore: Caring for Your Nervous System and Creativity with Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Kirby Moore

Send us a text 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 about this, join me and somatic experiencing practitioner Kirby Moore as we explore how the nervous system works and how to care for it and your writing life. Plus, Kirby will teach you a powerful tool you can use right now to calm your nervous system. While you can listen to this on any platform...

2 months ago

48 minutes

Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

Encore: The Power of Words: Samman Akbarzada on Finding Her Voice After Fleeing Afghanistan

Send us a text 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 behind everything you’ve ever known, and yet… still finding your voice through poetry, storytelling, and advocacy. Today, I have the honor of speaking with Samman Akbarzada—a poet, novelist, refugee, and fierce advocate for human rights. Her novel, Life is a Movie, tells the story of a working ch...

2 months ago

44 minutes

Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

Encore: Making Meaning and Writing Toward Posttraumatic Growth with Lennie Echterling

Send us a text 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 importance of fostering your posttraumatic growth, and how to use writing to build your resilience. Lennie’s Bio: Lennie Echterling, Ph.D., is a Professor Emeritus at James Madison University with more than 40 years of experience in promoting resilience, particularly during crises and disasters. ...

3 months ago

1 hour 4 minutes

Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

Encore: Navigating Complex Relationships and Writing Through Trauma with Lara Lillibridge

Send us a text 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 experience? Join me and Lara Lillibridge, author of Girlish, Mama, Mama, Only Mama, and The Truth of Unringing Phones, as we explore the impact of estrangement on the memoir writing process, how to protect your heart as you write about painful experiences, the power of publishing your story, as wel...

3 months ago

38 minutes

Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

Encore: Recovering from Cults and Religious Trauma Through Writing with Tia Levings

Send us a text 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 religion, and getting things off your chest and onto the page to educate others with your writing. As you listen to this episode, consider the following questions: What would you need to do to claim your story? What would tell you it has legs? What would you need to do to see it from a wider len...

3 months ago

54 minutes

Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

Encore: Understanding Neurodivergence with Katie Rose Guest Pryal

Send us a text 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 listen to this episode: What do you know about neurodiversity? Do you consider yourself to be neurodivergent? If you are, how does that impact the way you set up your writing life, what you write about, and how you see the world? Katie Rose Guest Pryal, J.D., Ph.D., is a bipolar-autistic author, k...

3 months ago

50 minutes

Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

Encore: It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic Abuse with Dr. Ramani Durvasula

Send us a text 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 get support, and how to care for yourself when writing and promoting a book on tough topics. Dr. Ramani’s Bio: Ramani Durvasula, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist in California, the founder and CEO of LUNA Education, Training and Consulting, and professor emerita of psychology at California...

4 months ago

1 hour 11 minutes

Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

Writing for an Audience Without Losing Yourself: Trauma-Informed Storytelling with Beth Docherty

Send us a text 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, Beth Docherty—a trauma-informed healthcare educator, musician, and emerging memoirist—as she shares her journey from research chemist to advocate for safer, more compassionate care. Together, we dive into one of the most important questions memoirists ask: How do we write about hard truths in ...

4 months ago

28 minutes

Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

Disrupting the Inner Critic: Dr. Risa Ryger on Writing, Change, and the Self-Owned Mindset

Send us a text 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 bottom of my heart. Now, about today’s episode. What if the key to writing through pain isn't pushing harder, but rather being radically kinder to yourself? That's what I'll explore with Dr. Risa Ryger, clinical psychologist, international speaker and founder of 93% Consulting. We explore what it re...

4 months ago

35 minutes