Narrative Processing
You know the importance of digesting your food—no matter how delicious and rich a meal you’ve enjoyed, if you don’t digest what you’ve taken in, there will be trouble.
The same is true for your life experiences. When you’ve been through a major adventure—whether that involves travel, a major life initiation or transition, a big storyline, theme or area of struggle in your life, or something else— you need to digest and process those experiences.
Writing—especially writing that is witnessed by yourself and others—is one of the most powerful and effective ways to digest your life experiences.
Writing also helps you:
remember your experiences
get a clearer idea of what your experiences were, what they meant to you then and what they mean to you now
claim yourself as the author of your own life
explore your internal landscapes (i.e. the emotional, mental, spiritual terrain)
heal the harder parts of your stories
honor what is true
transform in healthy and empowering ways
My experience with narrative writing support
I know deeply the magic that can happen when we write our stories. I’ve been writing to digest, heal and understand my experiences since I was a teenager. Much of my work outside of healing arts has been centered on the craft of writing.
I was a professional copywriter for over a decade, have my master’s degree in teaching writing, was an English professor for six years, have been a book coach for years, have led expressive writing workshops internationally, and am the author of the book: Birth Your Story: Why Writing about Birth Matters, that helps people write their own stories.
How we use Narrative Processing in Soul Guidance work
In our soul work together, I weave in writing experiences to support our work together. Writing is supreme in allowing us to discover what psyche-material wants to be brought to the surface to be better understood and processed. In most cases, I’ll offer writing processes for you to complete between our sessions and you can bring this material and your related revelations to our next call.
Listen to Jaime speak about narrative processing and the value of writing to heal on the following podcasts (click image to open podcast episode):
