How to Gaslight-Proof Your Writing Practice

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

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Have you ever dismissed your feelings, discounted your writing wins, or told yourself you should feel differently about your writing projects? If so, you might be gaslighting writing practice. Join me as I discuss what gaslighting is, how it shows up in our writing lives, and most importantly, how you can stop doing it.

Episode Highlights:

• 2:12: Defining Gaslighting
• 5:42: Reasons Writers Gaslight Their Writing Practice
• 10:05: Ways We Discount Our Creative Intuition
• 14:46 The Impact of Change on Our Writing Practice
• 23:50: Tools to Gaslight-Proof Your Writing Practice
• 31:37: The Poison of Comparison

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People with Dr. Ramani Durvasula
• “What Is the Fawning Trauma Response” by Ingrid Clayton, Ph.D
• Get your copy of Write More Fretless: A Toolkit for Gaslight-Proofing Your Writing Practice

Lisa’s Bio: Lisa Cooper Ellison is a writer and trauma-informed writing coach who hosts Writing Your Resilience, a podcast at the intersection of storytelling and healing where she interviews bestselling authors and experts in psychology and mental health. In addition to her storytelling expertise, Lisa has an Ed.S in clinical mental health counseling and a background in mindfulness. Clients have been published with small presses and Big-Five houses, including several who’ve become New York Times instant bestsellers. Her essays and stories have appeared on Risk! and in The New York Times, HuffPost, and Kenyon Review Online, among others.

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