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

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

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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: [e-mail]

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1. From Captivity to Clarity: Reclaiming Your Voice and Writing Your Truth (00:00:00)

2. Finding Words for What Lives Inside Us (00:06:00)

3. Mining Your Resilience (00:11:50)

4. The Ways We Discount Our Voices (00:14:42)

5. An Exercise to Reconcile Your Experiences (00:23:34)

6. The Importance of Ceremony (00:28:59)

7. The Power of Supporting Other Writers (00:30:00)

8. Change as Proof of Life (00:32:41)

9. Deserts to Mountaintops Volume 3 (00:38:59)

10. Jessica’s Best Writing Advice (00:42:39)