personal development on Life Story

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story.

I once was significantly lost. When I was a college student in northern Wisconsin, my dad and I were hiking on a trail that was somewhat familiar to me. I had been on this trail just a few weeks befor...

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging an...

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.