Awakening Quote by Tara Brach

Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting mental health,…

— Patricia Hampl

“Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone there who…

— Alice Walker

And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to…

— Donald Miller

Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone there who…

— Alice Walker

Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves…

— Deena Metzger

Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information.…

— Martha Beck

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

— Peter Weir

Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You…

— Jessica Stern

“Are you repeating someone else's narrative, taking it for granted? Talk therapy sessions and 12-step recovery shares help develop the ability to present a…

— Alexandra Katehakis

If you do really good storytelling, things that people also might anticipate and that they might have seen before - there's a reason we…

— Kimberly Peirce

We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their…

— Philippa Perry

Stories make ideas and concepts come alive and by shifting the action to another world and another time, they help us step back and…

— Prakah Iyer