Story Healing & Telling is a creative therapeutic process which invites all our moments -to be spoken, listened to, acknowledged, journaled, recorded, reviewed, reminisced, listed, prosed, poetried, fictionalized, historicized, become a legacy and bring connection to self, family and community.
Research from Centre Journal Therapy Texas, US Association of Poetry Therapy, American & Australian Psychological Societies, St Christopher’s Hospice London – documents the healing power and outcomes – from neurophysiological to spiritual – of story telling and writing.
For those:
- who desire to be heard and listened story healing bestows voice and comfort through telling your own story and hearing those of others Tell your story in your own unique way. Stories carry truth – truth brings healing
- with medical “labels” such as asthma, arthritis, immune, heart, terminal, cancer and life threatening conditions, pain, disability, trauma and depression story healing builds a bridge into community
- who are experiencing stress associated with health and life challenges a curative process can result
- for families and carers, story healing is a means to share the journey, to more fully know their loved one, to record, empathize and celebrate together