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Narrative Therapy & Storytelling

Re-Authoring • Identity Healing • Meaning-Making • Soul Witnessing

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​Narrative Therapy and Storytelling help you reclaim your voice, rewrite limiting beliefs, and transform your life story into one of meaning and empowerment. You learn to re-author the narrative of your trauma, integrate past experiences, and step into your identity with clarity and truth.

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Narrative Therapy and therapeutic storytelling invite you to step back from your pain and see your life through a new lens. Instead of being defined by trauma, you learn to reclaim your story, your identity, and your inner voice.

Trauma fragments the narrative.


It steals meaning, breaks coherence, and forces your story into survival mode.

Narrative work helps you gently gather the pieces and re-author the story from a place of truth, empowerment, and compassion.


You learn to name what happened without letting it define who you are.

This is the work of transforming wounds into wisdom, emotional fragments into coherence, and survival stories into soul stories.


It is healing, freeing, and deeply empowering…
because meaning is medicine.

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What Narrative Therapy & Storytelling Help With

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This work is effective for:

  • Rewriting limiting self-beliefs

  • Transforming shame into truth

  • Healing identity wounds

  • Understanding how trauma shaped your internal narrative

  • Integrating fragmented parts of your story

  • Finding meaning in what once felt senseless

  • Reclaiming personal power after abuse, loss, or neglect

  • Moving from “what happened to me” to “who I am becoming”

  • Grief, heartbreak, and life transitions

  • Decolonizing inherited family stories

  • Strengthening self-compassion and emotional clarity

  • Narrative work is especially powerful for those who feel stuck in the same emotional loops or identities created in survival.

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What Narrative Therapy Sessions Can Include

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Sessions may weave together:

  • Story reclamation and re-authoring

  • Identifying dominant narratives and hidden belief patterns

  • Working with internalized family, cultural, or societal stories

  • Externalizing the problem so it no longer defines you

  • Guided soul-based reflection

  • IFS-informed parts storytelling

  • Letter writing (inner child, inner teen, ancestors, self)

  • Timeline reconstruction and trauma mapping

  • Symbolic or mythic reframing

  • Narrative release rituals

  • Creative writing, spoken word, poetry, or journaling

  • Imaginal storytelling to heal wounded identity

  • Naming and celebrating resilience, gifts, and survival

 

You do not have to be a writer.

Your body and spirit already know how to tell the truth.

Narrative Therapy & Storytelling FAQ

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1. Do I have to share my whole story?

No. You choose what parts you want to explore. We only work with what feels safe.

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2. What does “re-authoring” my story mean?

It means reclaiming your voice and rewriting the internal meaning you’ve carried about yourself, your past, and your identity.

 

3. Will we talk about trauma in detail?

No. Narrative therapy focuses on meaning-making and empowerment, not re-exposing you to painful memories.

 

4. What if my story feels confusing or fragmented?

That is normal with trauma.
Narrative work gently helps you bring coherence and clarity back into your inner world.

 

5. How does storytelling help healing?

Storytelling organizes emotions, strengthens self-understanding, and helps the brain integrate trauma through metaphor, meaning, and reflection.

 

6. Is this like writing a memoir?

Not necessarily.
It can be journaling, speaking, reflecting, imagining, or reworking internal narratives. You choose the medium.

 

7. Do we work with ancestral or family narratives too?

Yes. Family stories, intergenerational beliefs, and inherited identities often shape your inner world. We can explore and rewrite these too.

 

8. Is this therapy or coaching outside Illinois?

Narrative Therapy is offered as therapy for clients in Illinois.
Outside IL, it is offered as narrative coaching and soul-based storytelling.

 

Trusted Resources for Narrative Healing & Story Work

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  • The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk

  • No Bad Parts, Richard Schwartz

  • Reauthoring Life, Michael White (founder of Narrative Therapy)

  • The Whole-Brain Child, Dan Siegel (for story and emotional integration)

  • Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg

  • The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron

  • The Book of Awakening, Mark Nepo

  • Women Who Run with the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés

  • The Heroine’s Journey, Maureen Murdock

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