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

From Captivity to Clarity: Reclaiming Your Voice and Writing Your Truth


Listen Later

Send us a text

What’s holding you hostage or keeping you stuck? In Jessica Buchanan’s case, it initially seemed like the Somali pirates who held her hostage for ninety-three were her biggest problem. But as she completed a powerful exercise during her captivity, she realized the issues she faced were far deeper and ultimately more common than the kidnapping she endured. Join me and author, TedX speaker, book coach, and founder of Soul Speak Press, Jessica Buchanan, as we discuss the ways we dismiss our inner knowing, how to reclaim your voice, and how to write your truth as you discover the mountaintops in your emotional deserts.          
                                                                                                                                                    
Episode Highlights

  • 6:00: Finding Words for What Lives Inside Us
  • 11:50: Mining Your Resilience
  • 14:42: The Ways We Discount Our Voices
  • 23:34: An Exercise to Reconcile Your Experiences
  • 30:00: The Power of Supporting Other Writers 
  • 38:59: Deserts to Mountaintops Volume 3
  • 42:39: Jessica’s Best Writing Advice

                                                              
Resources for this Episode:

  • Jessica’s TEDx Talk
  • Making Even The Smallest Mistake Filled Me With Terror. Then 2 Little Words Changed My Life
  • Porches Retreat


Jessica’s Bio: In her NYT Bestselling memoir Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six, Jessica details her experience as she was abducted at gunpoint and held for ransom by a group of Somali pirates for 93 days. Jessica is now a highly sought-after inspirational speaker, TEDx Speaker, and the founder of Soul Speak Press. Her upcoming book is an anthology titled Deserts to Mountaintops: The Pilgrimage of Motherhood.

Connect with Jessica
Website: https://www.jessbuchanan.com/
Publishing Website: https://www.soulspeakpress.com/
In Her Words Collection: https://www.soulspeakpress.com/powerwithin
Deserts to Mountaintops: https://www.desertstomountaintops.com/
To Learn More About Her Anthologies, Email: [email protected]

Connect with your host, Lisa:
Get Your Free Copy of Write More, Fret Less
Website | Instagram | YouTube | Facebook | LinkedIn

Free Your Writing Voice, Fuel Your Motivation is a 12-week course designed to help you reconnect with the creative spark that brought you to the page in the first place. https://lisacooperellison.com/free-your-writing-voice-find-your-motivation/

Produced by Espresso Podcast Production

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through WritingBy Lisa Cooper Ellison

  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5

5

68 ratings


More shows like Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

View all
On the Media by WNYC Studios

On the Media

9,121 Listeners

The Book Review by The New York Times

The Book Review

3,853 Listeners

On Being with Krista Tippett by On Being Studios

On Being with Krista Tippett

10,386 Listeners

Fresh Air by NPR

Fresh Air

38,173 Listeners

The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience by Kelton Reid

The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience

214 Listeners

10% Happier with Dan Harris by 10% Happier

10% Happier with Dan Harris

12,513 Listeners

The Paris Review by The Paris Review

The Paris Review

785 Listeners

Totally Booked with Zibby by Zibby Owens

Totally Booked with Zibby

611 Listeners

City Arts & Lectures by City Arts & Lectures

City Arts & Lectures

386 Listeners

The Shit No One Tells You About Writing by Bianca Marais, Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra

The Shit No One Tells You About Writing

753 Listeners

The Ezra Klein Show by New York Times Opinion

The Ezra Klein Show

15,174 Listeners

A Slight Change of Plans by Pushkin Industries

A Slight Change of Plans

2,066 Listeners

We Can Do Hard Things by Glennon Doyle and Audacy

We Can Do Hard Things

41,337 Listeners

Let’s Talk Memoir by Ronit Plank

Let’s Talk Memoir

134 Listeners

Writers on Writing by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and Marrie Stone

Writers on Writing

75 Listeners