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A practical and inspiring guide to transformational personal storytelling, The Story You Need to Tell is the product of Sandra Marinella's pioneering work with veterans and cancer patients, her years of teaching writing, and her research into its profound healing properties. Riveting true stories illustrate Marinella's methods for understanding, telling, and editing personal stories in ways that foster resilience and renewal. She also shares her own experience of using journaling and expressive writing to navigate challenges including breast cancer and postpartum depression. Each of the techniques, prompts, and exercises she presents helps us "to unravel the knot inside and to make sense of loss."
Author Notes
Writing teacher Sandra Marinella, MA, MEd, has taught thousands of students and fellow educators and presented hundreds of workshops to veterans, educators, and cancer patients. She lives near Phoenix, Arizona, www.storyyoutell.com
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Library Journal Review
One way to handle trying life events, says writing instructor Marinella, is through expressing your pain, dreams, and aspirations through narrative. For this book, the author interviewed hundreds of people, from veterans and cancer patients to students and grieving parents, all of whom have found that writing helped to lay out a broken experience and allowed them to begin to piece it back together again. Prompts provided at the end of each chapter serve to jump-start one's thinking to make sense of one's story. Other suggestions include describing difficulty from a different viewpoint and exploring tales of hope and possibility. VERDICT Although one does not have to be a writer to gain insight from this book, it will be especially relevant for those who are inclined toward journaling and putting their feelings on the page. © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. xiii |
| Author's Note | p. xvii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Part 1 Writing: Not Drowning | |
| Chapter 1 Waving: Not Drowning | p. 11 |
| Chapter 2 Facing Trauma: When There Are No Words | p. 21 |
| Chapter 3 Writing: Finding Our Words | p. 29 |
| Part 2 Writing Down the Self | |
| Chapter 4 A Room of Your Own: A Journal | p. 39 |
| Chapter 5 Writing Down the Self | p. 53 |
| Chapter 6 Stages of Writing and Healing | p. 67 |
| Part 3 Finding Meaning through Story | |
| Chapter 7 The Magical Mystery Tour: How Our Brains Create Story | p. 85 |
| Chapter 8 Stories: Our Lives Hang on Narrative Threads | p. 97 |
| Chapter 9 Finding Our Life-Defining Stories | p. 113 |
| Chapter 10 Making Sense of Self with Stories | p. 125 |
| Part 4 Rewriting Our Shattered Stories | |
| Chapter 11 Writing to Heal | p. 143 |
| Chapter 12 Breaking the Silence | p. 153 |
| Chapter 13 Getting Unstuck | p. 163 |
| Chapter 14 Embracing Other Perspectives | p. 169 |
| Chapter 15 Story Editing | p. 173 |
| Chapter 16 Rewriting and Transforming | p. 181 |
| Part 5 Writing to Heal | |
| Chapter 17 Writing to Heal from Hardships and Trauma | p. 191 |
| Chapter 18 Writing to Heal from Illness and Injury | p. 209 |
| Chapter 19 Writing to Heal from Loss | p. 225 |
| Part 6 Writing to Transform | |
| Chapter 20 Resilience | p. 251 |
| Chapter 21 The Burst of Creativity | p. 261 |
| Epilogue | p. 271 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 275 |
| Notes | p. 279 |
| References and Suggested Reading | p. 285 |
| Permission Acknowledgments | p. 291 |
| Index | p. 293 |
| About the Author | p. 309 |
