"Never let a good crisis go to waste." Winston Churchill

In today's episode, I list 3 ways to build your resilience in the face of pivotal events.

I announce a new project I'm excited about and invite you to join me on my new journey!

1. What types of events are pivotal (e.g. arrest, loss of a job, divorce/break up, big birthday, pandemic/languishing, loss, trauma, realization that I'm on the wrong path and life is passing me by).
2. How do these events impact us?
3. Understanding the Window of Tolerance.
4. What do we need at this time? What can you do with these pivotal events?

• Writing Bravely home page. Write with me!
• Episode 82: Beyond Stress: training yourself to thrive in recovery
• Episode 116: 3 Ways Writing Takes You from Hopeless to Hopeful: the final episode
• James Pennebaker: The expressive writing method

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Welcome to today's show!

In today's episode, I talk about how to tell when your pain is protecting you by dialoguing with our emotions. And the pain that I will be referring to is guilt, shame, remorse, maybe judgment, self judgment caused by the inner critic.

1. What are the types of pain? The pain of guilt or shame, remorse or judgment caused by the inner critic.
2. Who is the Inner protector is and what is its purpose.
3. How to listen to the healing signals through writing (what can they be signifying or letting us know we need to pay attention to?)
4. I give a homework exercise: Prompts - to lead down the path to get to know these undesirable parts.

• Writing Bravely home page. Write with me!
• Episode 106: 5 Journaling Prompts I Use The Most And The August And September Pause

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"You had someone to go places with. You had a date on national holidays!" -Marie, When Harry Met Sally, 1989

Welcome to today's show!

Loneliness is a feeling that I know a lot of us try and avoid. And the thing is, we've all felt lonely at different points in our life. So it's an important topic. I've described loneliness as an epidemic in previous shows (and so has the 19th Surgeon General of the U.S. Vivek Murthy). It's so prevalent and it's also so destructive mentally, and physically. So let's dive in.

WHAT WE'LL LEARN

1. What does society tell us about loneliness (hint: it's all wrong!)
2. The difference between loneliness and solitude.
3. What is healing, what is harmful, what must be lived through?
4. We can use loneliness for self-exploration
5. I give a few writing prompts to get us started on self-exploration through loneliness.

• Writing Bravely home page. Write with me!
• The Secret to Not Losing Yourself: recovering from narcissistic abuse

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"Man is least himself when he talks in his own persona. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

-Oliver Wilde

Welcome to today's show!

In today's episode, I talk about the masks that do more harm than good. The masks we wear because we are afraid; we are afraid that it anyone see's how incompetent we are at our job, relationships, parenting, at anything we feel is part of our identity, the costs will be too great.

WHAT WE'LL LEARN

1. I talk about the top 3 masks: the social mask, the emotional mask, The "Who AM I" Mask.
2. I give you a challenge to about the masks you wear and commit to letting them slip off now and again.
3. What if fear didn't get in the way, who would you like to be? I suggest a writing prompt.

• Writing Bravely home page. Write with me!

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People who are resilient allow themselves to be changed by the experience of adversity. To be resilient is not to avoid difficulty but to play an active role in how difficulty transforms you. -Kelly McGonigal, PhD, health psychologist, Stanford University

Welcome to today's show!

I've found that if one can focus their attention on resilience in these trying times, it shows that they can handle almost anything-it's a learned capacity to cope!

Resilience is as important to our well-being as Josh allen is to the Buffalo Bills. :)

WHAT WE'LL LEARN

1. Skills and strategies of resilience are always trainable.
2. The core of resilience is flexibility.
3. Choosing how you respond to resilience is essential.

• Writing Bravely home page. Write with me!
• 3 Ways to Build Your Resilience in The Face of Pivotal Events

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"Creativity is a basic human response to trauma and a natural emergency defense system," Louise DeSalvo

Welcome to today's show!

I spend some time talking about what writing can do for us and why writing works. I talk about how writing in community can be beneficial and how I will structure my upcoming writing groups based on the literature and personal experience.

WHAT WE'LL LEARN

1. Why writing? What writing can do for us?
2. Writing in community - what is the additional benefit?
3. What should we be aware of regarding safety/boundaries with writing
4. I will explain my creative process with writing.

• Writing Bravely home page. Write with me!
• 3 Ways to Build Your Resilience in The Face of Pivotal Events

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WHAT WE'LL LEARN

1. What is narcissism really? I discuss the myth of narcissism and how social media gets it terribly wrong.
2. How do you know if you've been in a relationship with a narcissist?
3. You've tried to be who your partner needed and when they are gone, you've lost yourself. Now what?
4. How writing helps with healing. I give you a few writing prompts.

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• Writing as a coping mechanism. Writing allows us to sit with the uncomfortable feelings and be curious about them-their contours, shapes and sizes. Writing can help us honor and light up our stories while prompting us to envision our future selves restored and renewed.
• Writing as a creative outlet. Writing is just one form of creative expression. It's not for everyone but I feel it's easily accessible for all.

• Writing that heals. I talk about my own journey with writing and how it helped heal my traumatic wounds when therapy seemed like "too much." The 13th-century Sufi mystic and poet Rumi wrote, "The wound is the place where the Light enters you." Thinkers from Freud to Brene' Brown have all postulated that there's strength in vulnerability.

• Writing Bravely home page. Write with me!
• James Pennebaker, Expressive Writing: words that heal
• Episode 89 Three Reasons Why I Love Journaling & The April Pause
• Episode 96 How to Use Journaling to Manifest Your Dreams in Recovery

• Episode 105 Q & A with Adina-daily practices for vulnerability, courage, love and belonging
• Sign up to be notified when the new podcast, Writing Bravely, drops here!

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