Engage your Story

You can begin a wild, glorious journey that will create a more spacious and flourishing life for you: your identity, your relationships, your embodiment and your impact on the world. Taking your story seriously, and telling it with more care and insight, will grow you and challenge you; it will also bring comfort and care to places that have long needed attention and attunement.

What is Story Work? Story Work is a process of writing, reading, and engaging key stories from your life for the purpose of bringing both insight and care. As you engage in Story Work, you can expect to build a fuller and truer understanding of your identity, your lived experiences, the way you show up in relationships, and your giftedness. Story Work requires a posture of curiosity and kindness, and when curiosity and kindness get hard (and they always do when we engage our stories), it requires a willingness to notice that shutting down and wonder why it happened.

Story Work is not counseling. Story Work is based on the Narrative Focused Trauma Care modality from The Allender Center and the work of Dr. Dan Allender. While counseling may include a diagnosis and various therapeutic modalities, and can tend to be more ongoing, Story Work is more brief (2-6 months), focused on stories you write out and read with me, and has more psychoeducation involved. It is a more active process and involves some homework. I offer Story Work both in a 1:1 format and in groups.

As your Story Work coach, I am here to be curious and kind alongside you, and to notice with you what your stories hold: the characters, the feelings, the soundtrack, the genres, the nuances and the meaning. I've worked with many, many stories, and I know both the wonder and the pain our stories bring when we are willing to sit with them awhile. I also know that my presence with you in your story can be a welcome comfort as well as a rousing voice of truth. Inviting me to care with you for your stories is immensely courageous, and I only enter those spaces with you with rich honor and respect.

Engaging in Story Work with me includes growing awareness (and kindness) around your attachment style, your window of tolerance, your embodiment, your family of origin, your style of relating, your sexual formation, your cultural context, and your gifting.