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

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


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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 lens? If it is a really tough story, how would you care for yourself as you work on it?

Tia is an author and guest expert who exposes the abuses in Christian Fundamentalism. She’s been quoted in Salon, the Huffington Post, and the New York Times and appeared in the hit Amazon docu-series, Shiny Happy People. Her memoir, A Well-Trained Wife, will be published August, 6, 2024 by St. Martin's Press. Online, Tia connects our current news headlines with high-control religious roots.

Episode Highlights:

  • Signals Your Project Has Legs
  • How Writing Heals
  • Gaslighting and Religion
  • Finding the Wider Lens
  • Understanding Your Boundaries
  • Writing Without Retraumatizing Yourself
  • Claiming Your Story
  • Caring for the Soft Animal of Your Body

Items mentioned in this episode: 

The  Best Way to Deal with End-of_year Angst  (Blog post on writing in a vacuum) 

Welcome to The Anti-Fundamentalist

Shiny Happy People where to find it

Shitty First Drafts by Anne Lamott

Dr. Ramani On Gaslighting

Plotting Your Novel with The Plot Clock

Deep Work by Cal Newport


Connect with Tia: 

Website: https://tialevings.com

Tia’s Book: https://tialevings.com/book

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/TiaLevingsWriter

Facebook: https://facebook.com/TiaLevingsWriter

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