A different approach to
understanding and overcoming addiction
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Elisa Fortise Christensen
Author · Poet · Playwright
Motivational Speaker
Turning adversity into purpose, wounds into wisdom, and gratitude into grace.
Elisa Fortise Christensen is an author, poet, playwright, and motivational speaker whose work explores resilience, reinvention, courage, joy, and the extraordinary strength of the human spirit.
Across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, stage work, and live speaking, Elisa tells deeply human stories about what happens after life changes us—
and what becomes possible when we choose not to let our hardest chapters have the final word.
Her work blends vulnerability, humor, lyrical storytelling, and hard-won perspective. Whether she is writing about survival, motherhood, loss, recovery, identity, or human connection, her message remains consistent: adversity may shape us, but it does not have to define us.
As a speaker, Elisa brings those same themes to the stage through candid storytelling, humor, poetry, and powerful conversations about resilience and choosing joy even when life does not go according to plan.
A little more personally
Elisa is the mother of two sons, a lifelong writer, a lover of animals, nature, music, and the strange beauty found in imperfect lives. She believes our scars, contradictions, triumphs, losses, and second chances are not interruptions to the story—they are the story.
Her goal, both on the page and on the stage, is simple: to leave people feeling less alone, more courageous, and more aware of what may still be possible.
After all, you never know what magical thing is awaiting you around the next corner.