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Making Meaning and Writing Toward Posttraumatic Growth with Lennie Echterling
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Lennie Echterling joins the Writing Your Resilience podcast to talk about the lessons he learned from landmine survivors, the difference between empathy and toxic positivity, the importance of fostering your posttraumatic growth, and how to use writing to build your resilience.
Lennie’s Bio: Lennie Echterling, Ph.D., is a Professor Emeritus at James Madison University with more than 40 years of experience in promoting resilience, particularly during crises and disasters. He has served as crisis counselor, consultant, and trainer following many traumatic stress events, including tornadoes and floods throughout the United States, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the tsunami in India, the 9/11 attacks at the Pentagon, the shootings at Virginia Tech, and landmine explosions in the Middle East. His awards include JMU’s Distinguished Faculty Award, Virginia Counselors Association’s Humanitarian Award, Virginia’s Outstanding Faculty Award, Virginia Counselors Career Service Award among many others.
Resources mentioned during this episode:
The Paradox of Empathy: When Empathy Hurts
The Book of Forgiving: The Four-Fold Path Four Healing Ourselves and Our World by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu
Writing to Heal with Laura Davis
Good Night Jung by Lennie Echterling
Episode Highlights
4:41 Lessons from Landmine Survivors
10:00 Triggers for Resilience
12:00 Defining Posttraumatic Growth
15:00 The Problem of Toxic Positivity
22:00 The Power of Being with Another Person’s Story
27:00 The Struggle to Trust
30:00 Embracing and Exploring the Chaos Story
35:00 The Role of Neuroplasticity in Storytelling
38:00 Lessons Learned from Final Conversations
42:00 Making Every Day Valentine’s Day
47:00 The Power of Expressing Gratitude
54:40 Lennie’s Best Writing Advice
56:20 Lennie’s Resilience Practice
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