We need to sing the blues to get over them. Some stories from our lives we carry around have been feeding us with damaging information. These stories need to be told, and then replaced with future positive stories. And our lives will reflect this new story of success. Telling stories that are dark and painful gives us a chance to realize that we are in the middle of our great Life Story, and that the future contains the hope of possibility.
Personal stories are for sharing and for hearing and for seeing and for feeling.
As the storyteller paints with words and gestures the varying sensory images in a personal history, the listeners' imaginations take them to often faraway places, let them meet people they have never met or remember those whose voices have become faint in their memories, and give them an understanding of experiences they may or may not have experienced. Bateson, Mary Catherine. Finite and Infinite Games. Strategies for Adults Hurt as Children. Napier, Nancy J. Sacred Stories.