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The story you need to tell : writing to heal from trauma, illness, or loss  Cover Image Book Book

The story you need to tell : writing to heal from trauma, illness, or loss / Sandra Marinella, MA, MEd ; foreword by Christina Baldwin.

Marinella, Sandra, 1950- (author.). Baldwin, Christina, (writer of foreword.).

Summary:

"Informed by the author's pioneering work with veterans and cancer patients, and her years of teaching writing and researching its healing properties, The Story You Need to Tell is a practical and inspiring guide to transformational personal storytelling. Riveting true stories illustrate Marinella's methods for understanding, telling, and editing our own stories in ways that foster resilience and renewal. Marinella also shares her own experience of using journal and expressive writing to navigate challenges including breast cancer and post-partum depression. Each of the techniques, prompts, and exercises she presents work to "unravel the knot inside and to make sense of loss." Based on a profound understanding of how "in our sadness and pain we can be remade," this is the kind of storytelling - and the kind of book - that can change and perhaps even save a life"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781608684830 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 1608684830 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: xvii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Novato, California : New World Library, [2017]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part one. Writing: not drowning -- Waving: not drowning -- Facing trauma: when there are no words -- Writing: finding our words -- Part two. Writing down the self -- A room of your own: a journal -- Writing down the self -- Stages of writing and healing -- Part three. Finding meaning through story -- The magical mystery tour: how our brains create story -- Stories: our lives hang on narrative threads -- Finding our life-defining stories -- Making sense of self with stories -- Part four. Rewriting our shattered stories -- Writing to heal -- Breaking the silence -- Getting unstuck -- Embracing other perspectives -- Story editing -- Rewriting and transforming -- Part five. Writing to heal -- Writing to heal from hardships and trauma -- Writing to heal from illness and injury -- Writing to heal from loss -- Part six. Writing to transform -- Resilience -- The burst of creativity -- Epilogue.
Subject: Marinella, Sandra, 1950- > Health.
Breast > Cancer > Patients > Biography.
Postpartum depression > Patients > Biography.
Narrative therapy.
Self-care, Health.
Genre: Autobiographies.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at York County Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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