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LIVING STORY
Juliet Bruce, Ph.D.

Creative Counseling and Story Coaching
for people who want to create new realities

These times call for people with imagination, vision, compassion, and courage -- possibly people like you -- who want to create new realities. In classic story format, that's what a hero or heroine is: a character who learns how to become the champion of a new order. They change the story.

For thousands of years, stories have been told to awaken, heal, inspire, connect, and empower people in need of new realities in their own lives and in the life of their world. Stories have provided maps for setting change into motion, navigating its uncertainties, and turning times of challenge into journeys of self-discovery and rebirth.

Once you realize that your life is an unfolding story and that you are all the characters in it as well as the storyteller, you are transformed from a victim of circumstances into creator of your own unique and marvelous life. You find your true voice. Your natural powers of intuition, possibility, and resilience are activated. You gain the clarity, confidence, and power to live in service to a better future for all.

          "Imagination has always had powers of
          resurrection that no science can match."
                                  -- Ingrid Bengis, author

Experience the guidance in healing story.

Times of crisis shake out everything superficial and non-essential, and leave us face to face with our deeper selves. These are the times when we ask ourselves what really matters to us, what's the purpose of it all, and what are we doing with this precious slice of time we've been given. What we often find in these times is that being in relationship with our inner selves, with other people, and with a larger life is what saves us and what really matters.

There is no form of self-expression more powerful than writing and no communication more intimate than sharing our stories. Juliet will help you to find your deepest story -- the one that holds your passion and purpose -- and support you as you bring that story to life, so that times of pain are transformed into great adventures of becoming who you really are.

Write your story as memoir.

Every life has its own beauty and its unique gift for others. According to a recent article in Science magazine, emotional well-being is related more to having a coherent narrative about one's life than having a happy one. It doesn't even need to be factually "true." It does need to have meaning.

Writing in a structured way about your life experiences can help you integrate them into a meaningful whole. In memoir, you can safely release buried emotions you may have carried within yourself for years, gain insights into the deeper dimensions of repeating situations and relationships, and share the lessons you've learned with others.

Create abundance by telling your business story.

Using story in your communications enables you to make a powerful emotional connection with the market you want to serve and memorably differentiate your offering from your competition.

For articles on business storytelling: http://smallbizstorytellingproject.blogspot.com/.

For a description of a strategic story project in which Juliet is collaborating with a strategic development specialist and a video story producer, visit The Story Zone.

Living Story Blog http://livingstory-ny.blogspot.com.
This month: "Divided Brain, Broken World: How the War in Our Heads is Destroying Our Planet."

For recommended books, see Writes of Passage page.

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