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

About 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 (https://lisacooperellison.com/) Get Your Free Ditch Your Inner Critic masterclass—your shortcut to a confident, S.H.I.F.T.ed mindset: https://lisacooperellison.com/subscribe/ (https://lisacooperellison.com/subscribe/)

Publisher

Lisa Cooper Ellison

Category

arts · education · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Dec 2023

Latest episode

17 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

26 of 141 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Why I'm Pausing My Top 100 Podcast And What My Body Knew Long Before I Did

   Host [Host Name] shares her decision to pause the "Writing Your Resilience" podcast, revealing how ignoring her body's signals led to this necessary break.

2. 

   10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Summer Rewind: Deep Memoir Writing Strategies with Jennifer Selig

   Host [Host Name] interviews writer, writing instructor, and publisher Jennifer Selig about using memoir writing as a powerful tool for healing and self-discovery.

3. 

   3 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Summer Rewind: Writing Rituals: Staying Grounded While Being Vulnerable with Natalie Buster

   Host [Host Name] interviews yoga therapist and certified death doula Natalie Buster about writing through trauma to connect with truth and art.

Inside a recent episode

Why I'm Pausing My Top 100 Podcast And What My Body Knew Long Before I Did

Published 17 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And she helped me experience love in a very unique way. So I was sitting with that grief at the end of July. And then as soon as I started to get my bearings, we found a water leak in our house. It was actually our ducks were sweating in the space between the basement ceiling and the first floor. […]

Who has been a guest on Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Jennifer Selig
• Natalie Buster
• Margaret Lee
• Jessica Yen
• Sue William Silverman

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

76,273

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

74 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

17 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 75 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

89

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

77

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