Rewriting Personal Narratives to Heal

In "Reminder of the Mind" (Bear & Company, 2015), Lewis Mehl-Madrona and Barbara Mainguy explain how the brain focuses on the story creation and storytelling art. The following excerpt from Chapter 1 explains how personal and cultural narratives harm health and provides narrative treatment as a solution to alleviate or eliminate symptoms of chronic illness.

The victim is a poet who is looking for a metaphor that is sufficient to express his dilemma. -Laurence Kirmayer

All these are things we need to know. There is always something to confuse us, so it is prone to get sick. We need a way of thinking to keep things stable, healthy and beautiful. We try to live longer, but a lot of things happens to us. Therefore, we follow these numbers in turn and our lives are consistent with the story. For string design - elders

We are born with stories about our concepts, history, who we are, our parents and our family, and our world. We were born all over the world as a story listener and a storyteller. Let's learn languages ​​through stories, storytelling and stories. We create the meaning of the world by telling our stories. The storytelling technique begins at the first moment when we try to safely pass through a disoriented life. Regardless of whether we recognize it or not, we always remember these stories to explain ourselves, make decisions, and create change. Although we may not be aware of this, we will use the elements of all of these stories throughout to create an interpretation of the main story, the meta story, the current life.

We all have "owner story" and we talk about our own narrative version. We will tell you a short version of this story to urge others to see what we want to see. The story of this major story or identity is the synthesis of many of our own stories that we accept and repeat. Sometimes, we only vaguely recognize the origins of some of these stories. We remember this and we can forget the place we got this story

When we were young we became unaware of the depth and complexity of the weaving of the story I live in. I think our story is mere "the truth". Since this feeling has absolute weight, I think that they are also conditions of "the way we really feel". This can lead to pain that we may not understand. In the context of these stories, the disease develops to us.

Amy 's story personalizes already valuable treatment stories. She is an empathic expert as a person who can discuss the ongoing ongoing treatment process. On the other hand, the story of Amy's disease is based on a framework familiar to the church audience. But all these secrets are not only personal transformation but also attention of the audience to focus again on the severity of daily injury management. Like "tragic dreams", "traitor's will" developed by Fatima, Noel, Amy is based on injuries and attempts to transform pain into new discoveries through addiction and disease. The world has been thoroughly relocated (in this case it has relevance).

In her compassionate article on therapeutic writing, Wendy Leyden contrasts with the idea of ​​"healing because it is a way to" release from the chest ". "But finding spectators is dangerous because the motivation for discourse of repentance is in the production of individuals and threatens to" authenticate "them with force. Therefore, in order to win recognition and tolerance of viewers, there is a talk show or realistic TV style performance that needs to inherit the story of the theme to the type of exploitation rule. In a sense, the audience must purchase in the currency of that person's story. And that person's story is bought by the large commercial equipment which is in charge of the activity.

When people tell stories of their own lives (with the help of therapists) and speak again, the story evolves into a more meaningful and healing structure. When a narrative therapist listens to stories spoken from customers, they help them by identifying other ways in which they live. As a result, they help clients to undertake the writers of their lives to rewrite their stories by breaking patterns and developing new solutions. Narrative therapy helps clients to solve problems