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“The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.”
Allain Botton
Story Weaving
The stories we tell ourselves shape / determine the world we inhabit / live in.
Story-telling is an integral part of being human, of healing and recovery. It is through story, that the order hidden in chaos is revealed to us during times of difficulty.
Through compassionate reflection, questioning and investigation on our journeys/paths, (values and beliefs), we are able to make meaning of both our sufferings and our joys, our potentials and our limitations.
This allows us to move forward, lighter and with increased wholeness and confidence in our unique being.
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The story we tell ourselves and others about who we are, our lives, or an aspect of our lives determines how we feel about ourselves and our lives.
This in turn determines what we do and how we do it with regards to both the big decisions we make as well as the small ways we choose to fill the moments that make up our days / lives.
Unexamined narratives can negatively affect our interpretations of life experiences and therefore stifle our identity.
As our patterns become illuminated through Conscious Storytelling, this becomes a vehicle to meaning making.
Conscious Storytelling is the journey to meaning making. Through reflection, we get to decide what has impacted us, both positively and negatively. Often through investigation we start to see that even what we at first thought negatively impacted us, turned out to be a necessary step to something more… illuminating our own particular Heroic qualities.
Whether we look at our over-arching life story or the various sub-plots which together make up our story, there are always many different ways of interpreting the same set of facts.
Herein lies our ability for creating a new story.
It is often in the simple act of re-narrating our stories that we gain a newfound sense of HOPE, thereby laying the seeds for something new: giving us the strength to continue or the confidence to start a new chapter in our ever unfinished story.
We ALL go through times in our lives when it is helpful to explore where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re going.
What if your symptoms are the only way to show you that something needs to change, that care and attention are necessary.
times of uncertainty and / or confusion;
depression; high anxiety; stage of life transitions;
divorce; grief; a physical diagnosis;
a mental health diagnosis; a lack of meaning;
or a desire to deepen one’s knowledge and relationship with oneself.
Depression and / or anxiety
Grief and /or divorce
Life transitions
A psychiatric diagnosis
A physical diagnosis
Finding alternatives to diagnosis & medication
Wanting to gain a deeper knowledge of your Self
Wanting to explore new/different ways of Living and Being
Story Weaving helps to navigate:
Depression and / or anxiety
Grief and /or divorce
Life transitions
A psychiatric diagnosis
A physical diagnosis
Wanting to gain a deeper knowledge of your Self
Wanting to explore new/different ways of Living and Being
Unexamined narratives can negatively affect our interpretations of our identity and / or our life experiences.
It is often in the simple act of re-narrating our stories that we gain a newfound sense of HOPE, thereby laying the seeds for something new: giving us the strength to continue or the confidence to begin a new chapter in our ever unfinished story.
Resilience is born out of Befriending our Authentic Self.
Learning to trust this inner guidance becomes a compass to rely on when all around one is falling apart.
If you have a past, you have a Story and hidden within YOUR STORY is your healing and your gold.
Come share your story and together we can unravel the knots, loosening their grip so that you have more space to weave your conscious tale…
What I KNOW in my bones
I KNOW we can ALL get to a place of deep inner peace.
I KNOW that it is through our difficulties that we are given opportunities for a deepening of our understanding of what it means to live an authentic life, a life that makes sense to us, regardless of what we have or don’t have, or what is or isn’t in our lives.
Resilience is born out of Befriending our Authentic Self.
Learning to trust this inner guidance becomes a compass to rely on when all around one is falling apart.
The light enters…. where the wound… Rumi
Re-narrating who we THINK we are
frees us up to BE who we TRULY are.
“A fundamental truth of psychology, from which our ego repeatedly flees, is that it is most commonly through suffering that we are stretched enough to grow spiritually.”
James Hollis
“We may not be able to choose our wounds in life, but we do have the power to choose what those wounds are going to mean. Jan Goldstein.”
Jan Goldstein
“Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.”
Carl Jung
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human
freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
Victor Frankl
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
Rumi
“Questioning is a basic tool for rebellion. It breaks open the stagnant hardened shells of the present, revealing ambiguity and opening up fresh options to be explored… Questioning can change your entire life. It can uncover hidden power and stifled dreams inside of you… things you may have denied for many years.”
Fran Peavey
“While there is life, there is hope.”
What if your symptoms are the only way to show you that something needs to change, that care and attention are necessary.