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The Transformational Power of Storytelling

Lloyd Glauberman, Ph.D. | Posted 02.09.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Myth, Storytelling, Hypnosis, Telling Stories, Metaphors, Wisdom, Unconscious Mind, Personal Stories, Personal Story, Healthy Living News
Lloyd Glauberman, Ph.D.

While myths, as vehicles for conveying wisdom, have been around since the beginning of human history, the therapeutic use of metaphor -- the subtly structured "story with a message" -- is a more recent development.

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Wigs Are My Superhero Costume

Salon | Posted 10.15.2012 | Women
Read More: Costumes, Wigs, Disguise, Salon, Personal Story, Women News

I was sitting at my kitchen table with a guy I’d met earlier that night. It was some dark hour beyond midnight, maybe 2 a.m., maybe 4 a.m., and I wa...

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How to Lose Weight, One Small Business at a Time

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 11.06.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Small Business, Personal Story, Personal Stories, Healthy Living News
Robert J. Elisberg

If you like stories with a twist, this one is for you.

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I'm Letting Go Of My Pregnancy Dreams

XOJane | Posted 07.31.2012 | Women
Read More: Pregnancy, Women, Xojane, Dreams, Personal Story, Women News

I've always dreamed of being pregnant. I mean that literally -- during a brief period when I thought I might have been rendered sterile by a bout of c...

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When There Was Nothing Left to Do, I Fed Her Ice Cream

Gilt Taste | Posted 07.25.2012 | Women
Read More: Mother Daughter Relationship, Food, Women, Cancer, Ice Cream, Personal Story, Family, Women News

Cape Cod, where I grew up, is practically the ice cream capitol of the world, and my mother took full advantage of her adopted home. Unlike many women...

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My Sister Had The Perfect Life -- And It Made Me Rethink Mine

Salon | Posted 07.05.2012 | Women
Read More: Comparison, Women, Jealousy, Personal Story, The Perfect Life, Sisters, Women News

"We bought a new house," my older sister said a few months ago, in one of our rare phone conversations. "I’m so happy for you," I said, though I'...

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A Personal Story: One Woman Takes On The Iron Girl Triathlon - At 58!

Posted 06.14.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Fitness, Marlo Thomas, Triathlon, Slideexpand, Personal Story, Running, Marathon, Fifty News

I love a challenge, so loved this story about a woman who took on a formidable physical challenge at – 58! --MT marlothomas.com By Rosemary Manni...

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Beware 'Story Lock'

Matthew Dowd | Posted 02.22.2012 | Home
Read More: Personal Narrative, Personal Story, Home News
Matthew Dowd

One of the best things we can do in life, both personally and professionally, is at regular moments to drop the etched stone tablets of our stories to the floor, allow them to break into pieces, and look at things with a fresh eye.

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Steve Jobs -- What Makes it So Sad?

Alison van Diggelen | Posted 12.06.2011 | San Francisco
Read More: Personal Story, Sad, Steve Jobs, Perspective, Humanity, Silicon Valley, Remembering Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs Dead, San Francisco News
Alison van Diggelen

What exactly is it that makes Steve Jobs death so profoundly sad? It wasn't just that he was the Thomas Edison of our day, the creator of so many cool products. It wasn't just his innovative brilliance.

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Accidents Happen. Luckily So Do Miracles.

Karen Latimer | Posted 11.23.2011 | Parents
Read More: Raising Children, Miracles, Accidents, Parenting, Children, Personal Story, Safety, Parents News
Karen Latimer

I believe in miracles. I got mine. I am not counting on there being another one in the cards for me, so I will be doing what I should've done before. I am looking for accidents before they happen.

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Pray for Glenn Beck

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Birth, Debate, Stories, Family, Children, Media, Campaign, Bureaucrats, Miracle, Reform, Pray, Prayer, Legislation, America, Government, Miracles, Abortion, Cerebral Palsy, Government Takeover, Personal Story, Health Care, Pro-Life, Fears, Pregnancies, System, Fear, Families, Healthcare, Choice, Insurance Coverage, Reform Proposals, Anger, Mother, Unborn Baby, Glenn Beck, Rhetoric, Quality of Life, Politics News
Jim Wallis

Beck's predictions that health care reform would lead to government bureaucrats euthanizing people like his daughter are dead wrong, but we at Sojournors agree with Glenn on this point: God is the giver of life.

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Searching for Bobby Fischer... and Bobby Neugeboren

Jay Neugeboren | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Erasmus Hall High School, Anniversary of Bobby Fischer's Death, Mental Hospital, Chess, Queens, Mental Patient, Brooklyn, January 17, Yugoslavia, Growing Pu in Brooklyn, Bobby Fischer, Iceland, Growing Up in New York, Bobby Neugeboren, 2008, Barbara Streisand, Coping With Mental Illness, Schizophrenia, National Junior Chess Championship, Memory, Personal Story, Brothers, Chess Club, Healthy Living News
Jay Neugeboren

The parallels in the lives of my brother and Fischer are often as remarkable as they are sad, and I've tried here to tell part of the story:

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