Use Your Tough Stories to Build Resilience
With Stacy Brookman
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Having lived through an extremely challenging time herself in an emotionally abusive marriage, Stacy found her calling in supporting outwardly confident women to take back control and develop the resilience they need to be themselves again. In her interview she shares her 4 step process to leverage your story, gain personal power over them and emerge resilient and joyful.
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About Stacy Brookman
Stacy Brookman is a Resilience and Life Storytelling Expert. She produces the Real Life Resilience podcast and the Emotional Abuse Recovery and Resilience Summit. She helps smart, outwardly confident women who secretly have low self-esteem issues due to an emotionally abusive partner take back control and begin to develop the resilience they need to be themselves again. She does that by helping them write their tough life stories. Women leverage her to unleash their stories so they can command their personal power and emerge resilient and joyful. She helps them gain clarity from their life lessons, lean on their hard-won wisdom and have power to feel confident in themselves again. She believes that life is a story…and it’s never too late to start telling yours.
Dear Stacy,
Wow! Thank you for your steps to freedom: embrace, enable, enhance, elevate! I too am a writer and have finished writing “my story” called: “Spirited Voyager: A Memoir of Motherhood Mission and Ministry.” As my counselors and doctors have discerned, WRITING THE BOOK was my journey to healing! Excruciating at times. Tedious also. Ultimately liberating. I wrote down my three lists: milestones, conflicts and desires. MOST ALL OF THOSE appear in my book in one form or another. I recently bought myself a refrigerator magnet which says: “A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink.” The quote is from Gina Carey. There is a picture of a young girl with a bow and arrow pointed towards a target. She has one eye closed and one eye opened as she aims her arrow directly at her challenge. I would love to send you some more pictures like that~! Thank you!
This is SO GOOD! Thank you so much for sharing these reflections with us Susan.
That’s awesome, Susan! Thank you for your kind words. I’m excited you did the three lists! It’s true, the healing journey is all about writing your stories…even though a lot of people never publish. They don’t have to 🙂 It’s a matter of getting it out of your head to heal. I love the quote too!
Stacy I wanted to say thank you, your interview really touched me.
In deep gratitude
Carol Sloan
Thank you so much, Carol! I’m so glad it did 🙂
Thank you for being on this journey with us Carol, and for offering your reflections here.
Gratitude!
I always wanted to write but I was told 45 years ago I was not a good writer but I’m going to follow your suggestions and stop believing something I was told so many years ago. I’m going to find my Authentic self.
Yes, Leira! That’s awesome that you’re going to follow my suggestions. You can change that inner voice and writing will help you do exactly that. 🙂 I’m cheering you on!
Yes yes yes!!! This is so good! I am so happy that this interview with our incredible Stacy has inspired you to take action and begin the writing journey. Unleash that authentic self – woohoo!! I am cheering you on along with Stacy!
So helpful and uplifting, thank you so much, Stacy Brookman and Richa Badami. I pray God will bless you both in Jesus’ name for taking the time to share and encourage others that feel stuck and want desperately to heal.
You are both right about this special time to start change and healing: I learned yesterday it is was Rosh Hashana a few days ago (known as New Year’s Day of the Jewish calendar). How cool is that?
Simple and practicle steps to start processing and healing. Deeply appreciated .
It’s our joy, Christine! Thank you for your prayers 🙂
Beautiful! Thank you Christine for your reflections and comments here, and for the blessings on us. May we all be raised and lifted from suffering and know that healing and love is available to us, now and always! Thank you thank you thank you!
This was a great interview. I almost skipped it because it’s hard to make time for all of the interviews but Tina Vallely posted about how she benefited from this one so much I decided to watched it during lunch. Stacy, you are so authentic and down to earth. I really appreciate you. ~~~ I’m grateful for you too Richa <3 Warmly, g
SO HAPPY that you did not skip this interview! Stacy is amazing and I am SO glad I got to interview her and bring her wisdom into this space.