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

Lisa Cooper Ellison

lisa.cooper.ellison@gmail.com

Booking Overview

A Thursday writing-and-healing show hosted by trauma-informed author Lisa Cooper Ellison that helps guests translate real-life hardship into resilient creative work. It’s a strong booking fit for authors, editors, psychologists, and resilience/healing professionals who can speak to trauma-informed practices, nervous-system regulation, and sustainable creative careers.

Metrics

Episodes: 124

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

YouTube: 644 subscribers

Instagram: 4.5k followers

30s Ad: 36 - 46, 60s Ad: 44 - 54

Contact Information

lisa.cooper.ellison@gmail.com

Host

Lisa Cooper Ellison - Author, speaker, trauma-informed writing coach, and trauma survivor living with complex PTSD. Works at the intersection of storytelling and healing, blending writing expertise and clinical training...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:

Published writers (memoir/nonfiction authors, spiritual/trauma-informed authors), editors/writing coaches, and mental-health/healing professionals who study resilience and can discuss trauma-informed approaches (often with personal or professional credibility). Guests appear to be credible and able to share practical, regulated, nervous-system-aware methods alongside lived experience.

Required Achievements:

Published book(s) or major nonfiction writing body, Recognition in mainstream or well-known media outlets (e.g., NYT-adjacent/broad press) or notable platforms, Demonstrated expertise via coaching, editing, or published resilience/healing work, Media appearances or speaking history (helpful but not always required)

Recent Guest Discussions

Tia Levings - Building A Writing Career From Trauma; Platform Growth Without Burnout; Staying Regulated During Visibility; Memoir-to-self-help Overlap.

Sarah Chauncey - Creative Flow And Practices; Presence/strategic Rest; Neuro/behavioral Factors That Pull Writers Out Of Flow.

Lynn Shattuck - Flow Practices And Creative Regulation; Grief/sibling Loss-informed Writing Perspectives; Tools Linked To Subconscious And Presence.

Recent Topics

Resilience, Trauma Healing, Memoir, Creative Writing, Nervous System, Grief, Mental Health, Psychology, Writing Coaching, Self Help

Episodes

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

Author Platform Strategy: Why Less Effort Gets Better Results with Human Design

May 21, 2026

Send us Fan MailBuilding an author platform can feel overwhelming, especially when you're doing it alone, on a budget, and wondering if any of it is actually working. In this episode, I sit down with author and adoptee advocate Patricia Knight Meyer to explore a Human Design approach to platform-building that’s rooted in intuition, authentic connection, and knowing where to focus your energy. If you've ever felt like you're grinding away at your platform with nothing to show fo...

Author Platform Myths Debunked: How to Reach Readers Without Burning Out | Writing Resilience

May 14, 2026

Send us Fan MailAuthor platform doesn't have to mean performing for an algorithm or chasing followers who don't care about your work. In this episode, I break down what an author platform actually is, why the "magic formula" myth keeps so many writers stuck, and how to build a platform that grows alongside your nervous system–not against it. If you've ever felt like the standard advice just isn't made for you, I want you to know — you're right. There is a wa...

Building a Writing Career from Trauma: Book Launches, Platform Growth & Healing with Tia Levings

May 07, 2026

Send us Fan MailWhat does it really take to build a writing career out of your hardest story and stay whole while doing it? In this episode, I sit down with author Tia Levings, whose memoir A Well-Trained Wife has become an increasingly timely reckoning with religious trauma, patriarchy, and survival. With her second book I Belong to Me just hitting shelves, Tia pulls back the curtain on navigating back-to-back book launches, genre-hopping with intention, and growing a 110,000-follower platfo...

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