The strength of storytelling

Telling your story may be the most powerful medicine on earth. Each of us is a constantly unfolding narrative, a hero in a novel no one else can write. And yet so many of us leave our stories untold, our songs unsung—and when this happens, we wind up feeling lonely, listless, out of touch with our life’s purpose, plagued with a chronic sense that something is out of alignment. We may even wind up feeling unworthy, unloved, or sick.

Not only does telling your story turn on the body’s innate self-repair mechanisms and function as preventative medicine, it also relaxes our nervous system and helps heal our mind of depression, anxiety, fear, anger and feelings of disconnection.

(Psychology Today - 2012)