Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing
by Lisa Cooper Ellison
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Encore: The Loneliness of Sibling Loss with Alyson Shelton and Lynn Shattuck
Jun 25, 2026
47m 41s
Linger in the Uncertainty: Jill Christman on Writing Through Grief and Loss
Jun 18, 2026
1h 02m 56s
Writing as the Language of Emotions: Lindz McLeod on Storytelling, Empathy, and Our Shared Humanity
Jun 11, 2026
59m 22s
Are You Writing for Others or Yourself? How to Break Free From People-Pleasing as a Writer
Jun 4, 2026
32m 21s
Writing, Healing, and Psychedelic Therapy: How Psilocybin, Set and Setting, and Integration Support Creative Resilience with Stacey Simmons
May 28, 2026
50m 39s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/25/26 | Encore: The Loneliness of Sibling Loss with Alyson Shelton and Lynn Shattuck | Send us Fan Mail About this episode:I am currently on break so I can focus on my writing and some much-needed rest. Until I return with new episodes on September seventeenth, I’ve curated a summer rewind series of fan favorites. This week’s episode with Lynn Shattuck and Alyson Shelton was recorded in October 2024 Back then, the Loss of a Lifetime: Grieving Siblings Share Stories of Love, Loss, and Hope anthology was a dream they were working to fulfill. This month, the book celebrated its fi... | 47m 41s | ||||||
| 6/18/26 | Linger in the Uncertainty: Jill Christman on Writing Through Grief and Loss | Send us Fan Mail What do we carry with us from the people we love and lose, and how do we make a choice from the center of our grief? This week, I'm wrestling with these questions alongside memoirist Jill Christman, whose new book The Heart Folds Early is a fierce and tender exploration of the decision to end a pregnancy after a devastating diagnosis. Jill and I talk about how grief from an earlier loss shaped her path toward this choice, the craft of handling time and signposting in memoir, ... | 1h 02m 56s | ||||||
| 6/11/26 | Writing as the Language of Emotions: Lindz McLeod on Storytelling, Empathy, and Our Shared Humanity✨ | writing voicecharacter motivation+3 | Lindz McLeod | — | — | writingstorytelling+3 | — | 59m 22s | |
| 6/4/26 | Are You Writing for Others or Yourself? How to Break Free From People-Pleasing as a Writer✨ | people-pleasingwriting+3 | — | — | — | writingpeople-pleasing+3 | — | 32m 21s | |
| 5/28/26 | Writing, Healing, and Psychedelic Therapy: How Psilocybin, Set and Setting, and Integration Support Creative Resilience with Stacey Simmons✨ | psychedelic therapyresilience+4 | Stacey Simmons | psilocybinWriting Your Resilience+2 | — | psilocybinpsychedelic therapy+5 | — | 50m 39s | |
| 5/21/26 | Author Platform Strategy: Why Less Effort Gets Better Results with Human Design✨ | author platformHuman Design+3 | Patricia Knight Meyer | — | — | author platformHuman Design+3 | — | 54m 09s | |
| 5/14/26 | Author Platform Myths Debunked: How to Reach Readers Without Burning Out | Writing Resilience✨ | author platformresilience+3 | — | — | — | author platformwriting advice+3 | — | 37m 45s | |
| 5/7/26 | Building a Writing Career from Trauma: Book Launches, Platform Growth & Healing with Tia Levings✨ | writing careertrauma+4 | Tia Levings | A Well-Trained WifeI Belong to Me | — | writingtrauma+5 | — | 47m 57s | |
| 4/30/26 | Why Writers Struggle to Find Flow — and the Simple Practices That Bring It Back✨ | creative flowwriting process+3 | Sarah ChaunceyLynn Shattuck | — | — | creative flowwriting+3 | — | 36m 43s | |
| 4/23/26 | How to Stop Controlling Outcomes and Start Surrendering: Tools for Writers and Creatives✨ | surrenderresilience+4 | — | — | — | surrenderresilience+5 | — | 28m 34s | |
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| 4/16/26 | How to Discover Your True Writing Voice with Jeannine Ouellette✨ | writing voicehuman connection+4 | Jeannine Ouellette | The Part that Burns | — | writingresilience+5 | — | 49m 18s | |
| 4/9/26 | Silenced No More: How to Write the Story You've Been Afraid to Tell with Meagan Justus✨ | writingresilience+3 | Meagan Justus | — | — | writing advicestorytelling challenges+3 | — | 27m 01s | |
| 4/2/26 | Healing Your Ancestral Trauma: How Family Constellations Work Can Free You from Stories That Aren't Yours with Tania Gonzalez-Ortega✨ | ancestral traumaFamily Constellations+3 | Tania Gonzalez-Ortega | — | — | ancestral traumaFamily Constellations+3 | — | 39m 15s | |
| 3/26/26 | Human Design for Writers: How Understanding Your Design Unlocks Resilience, Creativity, and Deeper Healing with with Jessica Eure✨ | Human Designcreativity+4 | Jessica Eure | — | — | Human Designcreativity+4 | — | 41m 53s | |
| 3/19/26 | Find Your Life's Purpose One Feeling at a Time: A Human Design Approach to Alignment✨ | life purposehuman design+4 | — | Human Design | — | Human Designalignment+3 | — | 23m 35s | |
| 3/12/26 | How I Escaped Iran & Wrote My Way to Freedom | My Name Means Fire Author Atash Yaghmaian✨ | resiliencetrauma+4 | Atash Yaghmaian | My Name Means Fire | — | resiliencetrauma+5 | — | 53m 42s | |
| 3/5/26 | Creative Intuition: The Skill That Makes Life and Work Easier✨ | creative intuitionwriting process+3 | — | — | — | intuitionwriting+3 | — | 32m 18s | |
| 2/26/26 | How Writers Keep Going When They’re Exhausted, Overwhelmed, and Doubting Themselves✨ | resiliencecreative process+3 | Kristin SanckenLynn Shattuck | — | — | resiliencewriting+3 | — | 34m 00s | |
| 2/19/26 | How to Write a Memoir When You Don’t Remember Everything (Memory, Trauma & Emotional Truth) with Sue William Silverman✨ | memoir writingmemory+3 | Sue William Silverman | Vermont College of Fine Arts | — | memoirwriting+5 | — | 39m 57s | |
| 2/12/26 | Can You Trust Your Memories? What Neuroscience Reveals About Trauma, Story, and Healing with Stacey Simmons | Send us Fan Mail Listeners, do you ever wonder if your memories are real? Are you writing a memoir and struggling to remember something—or worrying that what you’re sharing might not be “the truth”? Today on Writing Your Resilience, I’m joined by psychotherapist and neuroscience nerd Stacy Simmons for a powerful conversation about memory, trauma, and storytelling. We explore why memory isn’t a recording device, how traumatic memories get fragmented in the brain, what “reconstituted memories” ... | 55m 20s | ||||||
| 2/5/26 | How to Write About Trauma Without Traumatizing Your Reader with Melissa Fraterrigo | Send us Fan Mail Writers, are you writing about trauma and wondering how detailed to get or how to connect the dots when your story feels scattered? The solution might be a memoir in essays that allows you to write about powerful discreet moments that are loosely connected by associations. If that's you, you are in for a treat because this week on the Writing and Resilience Podcast, I'm joined by Melissa Fraterrigo, author of the Perils of Girlhood, named one of literary hub's, 10... | 41m 14s | ||||||
| 1/29/26 | Memoir Writing Mistakes: Why “This Happened, Then This Happened” Isn’t a Memoir with Wendy Dale | Send us Fan Mail This week, I’m joined by Wendy Dale, the author of The Memoir Engineering System, for a conversation that will change the way you think about structure, scenes, and what actually makes a memoir work. We talk about why “this happened, then this happened” isn’t a story, how connected events create momentum, and why your job as a memoirist isn’t just to show—but to transport your reader. If you’ve ever felt stuck in the messy middle, overwhelmed by pages, or unsure how to shape ... | 46m 40s | ||||||
| 1/22/26 | Entering the Fire Horse Year: The 3 Things Writers Must Do to Reclaim Momentum | Send us Fan Mail As we step into 2026, many writers feel ready to begin—yet remain stalled or exhausted from the year before. In this episode, I show you how to reclaim momentum through creative alignment and the one thing you must do to harness your success. We explore the three essential things every writer must do: shed limiting beliefs, build supportive habits, and set boundaries that honor who you’re becoming—so you can step into the year with clarity, sovereignty, and authentic momentum... | 34m 44s | ||||||
| 1/15/26 | Encore Episode: Breaking the Silence with Melanie Brooks | Send us Fan Mail In this encore conversation, author and teacher Melanie Brooks and I explore the lifelong impact of silence—within our families, our communities, and our writing lives. Drawing from her memoir, A Hard Silence, Melanie shares how unspoken truths shaped her understanding of grief, identity, and faith, and what it took to finally claim her voice on the page. Together, we discuss how silence keeps writers stuck, the power of finishing the stories that haunt us, and how narrative ... | 49m 34s | ||||||
| 1/8/26 | Encore Episode: Writing about Absent Fathers and Attachment Styles with Acamea Deadwiler | Send us Fan Mail Join me and Pushcart Nominee, TedX Speaker, and multi-passionate creative, Acamea Deadwiler for this encore episode where we talk about normalized violence, how our attachment styles can influence the way we approach our memoirs, and the importance of connecting with your inner compass. During our conversation, you’ll also learn what transcendental meditation is and how Acamea used her TM practice while writing her memoir, Daddy’s Little Stranger. Acamea’s bio: Acamea Deadw... | 55m 24s | ||||||
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