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The Story You Need to Tell
Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss By: Sandra Marinella, Christina Baldwin - foreword Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins 5 out of 5 stars 5.0 (2 ratings) $14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime. OR Publisher's Summary A practical and inspiring guide to transformational personal storytelling, The Story You Need to Tell is the product of Sandra Marinella’s pioneering work with veterans and cancer patients, her years of teaching writing, and her research into its profound healing properties.
InnerSelf Newsletter: July 29th, 2018
Welcome... Our InnerSelf welcomes your inner self.This is the early-bird (or in-progress) version of the newsletter. The completed version will be available Sunday evening.Wishing you enjoyable insightful reading, and of course a wonder-full, joy-full, and loving week. Marie T.
Our Stories Allow Us To Make Sense Of Our Lives
Our brains hold the magic that allows us to find our stories and to make and remake our meaning. When split-brain research began in the 1960s, the findings expanded horizons on how our storytelling minds work. Hoping to prevent serious seizures in patients, researchers began a series of experiments in which they severed the corpus callosum, the nervy band of fibers that carries communications between the right and left sides of our brains.
Writing to Heal from Hardships and Trauma
“Nothing that happens to us, even the most terrible shock, is unusable, and everything has somehow to be built into the fabric of the personality.” — May Sarton I received a note from Matthew “Goldie” Goldston, who wrote to tell me he had kept a diary during his stint as a marine in Afghanistan. Shortly afterward, Goldie connected me to two former marines who served with him — Jeremy Lattimer and Todd Nicely. All three joined the service inspired by their idealism.
Writing to Heal from Hardships and Trauma
“Nothing that happens to us, even the most terrible shock,is unusable, and everything has somehow to be built into the fabric of the personality.” — May Sarton I received a note from Matthew “Goldie” Goldston, who wrote to tell me he had kept a diary during his stint as a marine in Afghanistan. Shortly afterward, Goldie connected me to two former marines who served with him — Jeremy Lattimer and Todd Nicely. All three joined the service inspired by their idealism.
When Life Gives You Lemons, Pick Up Your Pen
All the world is full of suffering. — Helen Keller As I sat on the edge of the black velvet chair in the chalk-white, sterile office, my heart clenched as I waited for a doctor I did not want to meet. The door swung open, and a chalk-white radiologist entered and motioned me to sit back. I began to choke, and tears of nervous anticipation flooded my eyes.
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