Own Your Life:
How our Wounds Become our Gifts
By Lise Porter
For everyone who’s ever wanted their life to be different but feels like they’re stuck in gear, Own Your Life explores how we can leverage adversity and move from crisis, challenge, or loss to a place of thriving in our lives.
In Own Your Life, Lise Porter, a licensed psychotherapist and survivor of her mother’s suicide, passionately asserts that when we fully own the ups and downs of our lives, our personal wounds actually become gifts that serve us and the world at large. Through thirty-five short narratives all dealing with specific themes and tools pertaining to transformation, Porter debunks stigmas associated with grief, loss, and trauma and shares insights that inform, inspire, and soothe- providing readers hope and teaching them how to metabolize adversity so they can tolerate, integrate, and transcend those experiences.
Interviews
Jesalyn Eatchel interviews Lise Porter for the Wildish Wise Women podcast about writing her book.
Listen to Lise Porter interviewed by Desmond Devenish for the Gunnison Galaxy podcast.
Watch an interview with Lise, filmed when she was in the process of writing her book, Own Your Life: How Our Wounds Become Our Gifts.
Published Articles
In addition to writing for the general public, LIse has been published in the academic community on the subject of psychotherapy and the arts.
The Bifurcated GIft:
Love and Intimacy in Drama Psychotherapy
The Arts in Psychotherapy
Death in Transformation:
The Importance of Impasse in Drama Therapy
The Arts in Psychotherapy
Read Lise‘s Latest Blog Post
Lise regularly writes over on her blog Lise’s Letters. Read her latest blog post below.