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From Mindless Din to Deep Mindfulness

The Journey of Spiritually-Oriented Psychotherapy

Several years ago, I participated in a group exercise at a job orientation that became a guiding metaphor about how to remain connected to my inner voice amid the noise of modern life. The goal of the exercise was to walk from one end of a large room to the other, blindfolded, while navigating an […]

Filed Under: Articles & Essays, Blog, Media Tagged With: Psychotherapy, Spiritual Counseling, Spiritual Guidance, Spirituality, Spiritually-Oriented Psychotherapy

Are You Hiding Your Inner Rock Star?

The Masks We Wear Can Help - or Hurt Us - in Life

Although I indulge in watching viral videos, I rarely play them more than once. But I can’t seem to stop watching Adele fooling a bunch of her own impersonators by pretending to be one of them. There is something Shakespearean in the way she dons a prosthetic nose and chin, feigns a bad case of […]

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It’s Not Whether You Win or Lose, But How You Tell Your Story

Redefining What It Means to Have a Happy Ending

When I was young, one of my favorite books was Sugarcane Island, which was the first “choose your own adventure” type of interactive book. The premise was fairly simple: You had been shipwrecked on a deserted island. The goal was survival and finding your way home. At the end of each chapter was a list of […]

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Flip the Script

Are You Miscast in Your Own Life?

In the movie “Stranger Than Fiction,” Harold Crick is a robotic IRS agent who begins to question his mundane existence when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life and foreshadowing his death. When he discovers that he is not the master of his own destiny, but rather a fictional character, Crick tracks down his […]

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“Inside Out” Teaches Us that Every Emotion has a Purpose

As a therapist, I often feel like a tour guide for my patients. Using various “maps” and my knowledge from years of traversing the emotional terrain, I help them navigate the territory of the mind and make sense of what they discover. Pixar’s “Inside Out” took that journey one step further, introducing the indigenous people […]

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Accessing Your Inner Superhero

Each of us is on a journey. This journey is our story. And naturally you are the protagonist in this story, which like any story, has conflict. And no one can resolve this conflict but you. As therapist Kim Schneiderman, LCSW, MSW, writes in her excellent book Step Out of Your Story: Writing Exercises to […]

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Using Storytelling Techniques to Reframe Your Life

A Review from Pysch Central

Our lives are a story. There are characters, conflicts and resolutions. There is joy and pain, comedy and drama. There is mystery and adventure. How we tell our tales, and thereby how we see ourselves, plays a huge role in how we live our lives. Because perception is everything. If we view a failure as […]

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Charlotte Rains Dixon Reviews “Step Out of Your Story”

Once again, the wonderful folks at New World Libraryhave offered me a book to review.  And once again, I’m making slow progress through it because I keep stopping to ponder and do the exercises. I found the receipt of this book particularly serendipitous because shortly before it arrived, I announced that I was pondering offering […]

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Your Life as a Character Development Workout

How Antagonists Help Us Strengthen Emotional and Mental Muscles

Does the same type of character keep showing up in your life and pushing your buttons? These people may look nothing alike, but they keep presenting you with more or less the same frustrations and issues. Or perhaps there’s a negative situation you keep finding yourself struggling with: picking up the slack and getting no […]

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Tapping into Your Omniscient Narrator

How Writing in the Third Person Helps You Step Out of Your Story

In the movie Stranger than Fiction, Harold Crick is a robotic IRS agent who begins to question his mundane existence when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life and foreshadowing his untimely death. When he discovers that he is not the master of his own destiny, but rather a fictional character dreamed up by an […]

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“Step Out of Your Story” Featured in Shambalah Sun

"The exercises are presented clearly and should appeal to anyone looking to step out of negative rumination, self-criticism, and habitual patterns." Read more...

http://www.lionsroar.com/book-and-movie-reviews-for-november-2015/

Storycircle Book Review

"Schneiderman doesn't promise that your world will become instantly rosy and perfect; nor does she say that the journey will be an easy one. Rather, she is an encouraging and supporting presence, providing her readers with a tool chest of possibilities for making change in their lives."

http://www.storycirclebookreviews.org/…/stepoutofyourstory.…

 

Step Out Of Your Story

STEP OUT OF YOUR STORY

Writing Exercises to Reframe and Transform Your Life

Every life is an unfolding story, and how individuals tell their story matters. Recent Stanford and Columbia University studies show that how we view the story of our life shapes the life itself. Who are the heroes and villains? Where does the plot twist? How are conflicts resolved? Learn more...

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