YOUR LIFE IS YOUR STORY
Find it. Write it. Live it.
Sandra Marinella’s The Story You Need to Tell is a collection of illuminating stories that show us the power of writing to transform our lives.
Sandra Marinella has written a wonderful guide for all those struggling to make sense of the story of their lives! It can serve as the perfect prescription for real healing.
The Story You Need to Tell is a beautifully written book with stories that inspire the readers to make their way through trauma, illness, loss, and hardship.
Sandra Marinella brings keen research skills, a brilliant storytelling voice and a distinguished teaching career to this cohesive guide for writing the unspeakable.
WORKSHOPS & Events
Change your story and you can change your life. Our brains think in story. Our lives hang on our stories. In the midst of an illness, a trauma, or a loss, our stories can help sustain and heal us. Our workshops explore the power of our stories.
JOURNAL PROMPTS
Find Your Calm
Times are challenging right now. The pandemic is dragging on. We need to find personal ways of finding our calm—and remembering to embrace and use them. You can begin this writing in either of these two ways:
- Make a list of ways you find your calm. Perhaps walking, cooking, singing? Doodle or add details or specifics you love about each way of finding your calm. OR
- Create a cluster. Begin by writing the word “calm” in the center of a piece of paper. Draw a circle around it. Then free associate from the central circled word—calm. What ways calm you? Draw sticks out from your center and create new circles with the specific things that calm you (hiking, meditating, sewing?.) Then add details to how each specific calming way works for you.
Using your list or cluster, freewrite for ten or more minutes. What ways do you find calm? Write about how these moments make you feel. Explore how you can work these moments into your life during challenging times. Explore and live your possibilities Work to make this happen. You can do this!
MONTHLY PROMPTS
HEALING INSPIRATION
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INSPIRATION
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