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.
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Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing
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 with you about a topic that keeps coming up: Forgiveness.
Whether we’re on a healing journey or writing the tough stuff, forgiveness can be a complicated thing to grasp and work through. In this episode, I talk about what forgiveness is, what the process looks like, and how it’s related to the writing process.
As you listen along, consider the following questions: What do you think about the word forgiveness? More importantly, how do you feel about it? What do you want to know about it? And finally, what relationship do you think it has to the writing process?
Episode Resources
Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma by Melanie Brooks
It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing From Narcissistic People by Dr. Ramani Durvasula
Writing to Heal with Laura Davis
Practicing Radical Acceptance with Zebib Abraham
Leaning into the Mystery of Your Stories with Brett Will Taylor
Recovering from Cults and Religious Trauma Through Writing with Tia Levings
To Write a Better Memoir, Learn This F-Word
Episode Highlights
2:00 Why People Hate Forgiveness
7:00 Forgiveness Myths
9:00 Defining Forgiveness
13:00 Forgiveness Prerequisites
22:00 The Process of Forgiving
30:00 Two Powerful Writing Exercises
36:00 Renewing and Releasing Relationships with Yourself and Others
48:00 Empowering Yourself
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