Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?
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Abortion, sex and family secrets: Annie Ernaux, France's great truth teller
In The Guardian Angelique Chrisafis has a profile ...
Abortion, sex and family secrets: Annie Ernaux, France's great truth teller
It beats like a heart, soothes emotional wounds, and builds life-giving connections. Rafael Campo, physician and award-winning author, prescribes poetry for students, patients, and doctors.
Storytelling plays an essential role in helping you understand your life and define your personality. The power and place of storytelling in human culture is ancient and is thought to have emerged, along with language, as a way to express your skills and capabilities to others.
Every day you tell stories — to yourself, in the privacy of your own mind, and to those around you, in the ways you describe both your and their actions and personality. Story is powerful and can help reinforce strengths or remind you of a weakness. Taking charge of your story, or rewriting its central themes, can help you tap into unexpressed parts of yourself, discover new strength and start to believe in your talents.
While storytelling is ancient and innate, narrative therapy is relatively recent. Narrative therapy was popularised in the 1990s by Michael White and David Epston. As described in Theory and Practice of Counselling and Psychotherapy by Gerard Corey, narrative therapy is one of a variety of postmodern approaches to counselling. It centres on a handful of key assumptions, two of which include taking “a critical stance toward taken-for-granted knowledge” and “there is not a single or ‘right’ way to live one’s life”.
Taking charge of your story, or rewriting its central themes, can help you tap into unexpressed parts of yourself, discover new strength and start to believe in your talents.
Drawing on these two simple points can help you unlock a world of potential. Some of what you take for granted as truth — especially about yourself and your talents — may simply be story hardened into belief and thus may not be as “true” as you have thought. Challenging yourself on these so-called truths can be liberating.
You may have unconscious expectations — or limits — on how to live, based in part on stories you have told yourself over an extended period. But, if what you believe to be the “right” way to live was only an assumption, how might your potential expand?
The focus on story in narrative therapy shows how you can draw on the healing power of storytelling in your own life. You may not be aware that the nature, theme and content of your stories influence your innermost self. By bringing awareness to the stories you tell yourself, or those you have heard others tell about you, you can change your thoughts, your story and your potential.
JENNY HOCKING. ‘A tawdry distortion of history: How the Palace airbrushed Sir John Kerr’s Memoirs’
There have been dramatic revelations from the National Archives of Australia with the release of letters between the Governor-General Sir John Kerr and Buckingham Palace following Kerr’s dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. These letters provide remarkable and disturbing new material on the dismissal of the Whitlam government and the role of the Palace. They not only confirm that Kerr was in secret contact with the Queen’s private secretary Sir Martin Charteris in the months before the dismissal, they also reveal that the Palace and Kerr then agreed to keep these ‘exchanges’ with Charteris hidden from public view, and from our history, by omitting any mention of them in Kerr’s later memoirs. Continue reading
Unauthorised Banksy exhibition, 'The Art Of Banksy', is returning to Australia this year with a limited run at the Entertainment Quarter in Sydney's Moore Park. Curated by Banksy's former manger Steve Lazarides, the retrospective exhibition features 80 artworks sourced from over 40 different private collections from around the world.
Highlights of the event include the 'Flower Thrower', 'Rude Copper' and 'Girl with Balloon', which many will remember was sold at auction for $1.4 million last year before being shredded in a headline grabbing prank.
Blast from the past: Details emerge of Banksy's Sydney visit - Sydney Morning Herald
IT IS unclear why the celebrated British graffiti artist Banksy chose the wall of an organic food co-operative in Enmore as his Sydney canvas. Perhaps he likes biodynamic ricotta? Residents ...
THE ART OF BANKSY, the world’s largest touring collection of Banksy’s works. Curated by Steve Lazarides, the artist’s former manager and photographer
A Banksy retrospective, featuring more than 80 of his best-known works, and exhibited in a gallery space. ... The Art of Banksy – is curated by famously anonymous artist ...https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/inside-the-magical-world-of-australias-banksy/news-story/f73a62a7af244a5b799e68d53a2f0e5dBanksy Of EscapesTrying to boost your brain health with sudoku, sugar or even sex? Let's take a look at the evidenceWellbeing and the healing power of storytelling