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December 29, 2022
The Crossing of the First Threshold
When we as modern people think of a threshold, we think of the old concept of a newlywed bride being carried through the doorway of her new home. The lower part of the doorframe, the piece you step over as your entire any room is the threshhold.
There’s an ancient story of when the holy Ark of the Covenent (the artifact from Raiders of the Lost Ark) was captured by an enemy tribe. This group of people called the Philistines took the Israelites’ sacred object to the temple of their chief god, Dagon. This was spiritual gloating on their part. It said, “Hey Israelites, our god is bigger and better than yours!”
But when the Philistine priests of the temple of Dagon came in the next morning they found the statue of Dagon on its face before the Ark of the Covenent. The priests set the holy embodiment of Dagon back up and the second day, they walked into their temple and found Dagon shattered across the temple threshold.
From that day onward, the priests of Dagon refused to step on the threshold of their own temple because in their ancient worldview the shattering of their god Dagon, in his own temple, across his own threshold meant that the threshold was not Dagon’s - but belonged to the God of the Israelites who sat on the Ark of the Covenent as judgement and mercy seat. (Think of modern judge’s desk where they hold court and you’ll get the proper image.)
They viewed this threshold as ‘dangerous turf,’ a border between what belonged to their god Dagon and the God of the Israelites.
This is similar to what crossing the threshold means in the monomythic quest structure. By stepping over the threshold, the hero or shero is moving into unknown and possibly dangerous territory. It is territory beyond what is safe.
During the COIVD-19 lockdowns of 2020 there was a lot of fear to move outside our homes, so for some people stepping over the threshold of their own exterior door became terrifying and came with great risk. They were literally afriad of death outside their homes, just as the ancient priests were afriad of treading on the turf of the Hebrew God, even though it was in their own country.
As we move forward as an international community, we need to step over the threshold and into new and better things. We need to reacquaint ourselves with healthy risk levels and learn to live without fear again.
This will be an adventure…
On our adventure into 2023 we need to push back against fears, move out from our overly safe places and do something for a greater good. Collapse, fear and danger are everywhere we look and while we need to understand the risks, what is more important is that we need tell ourselves better stories. Fearless stories… stories where we as inviduals dare to do things beyond our comfort zone, stories where we dare to believe we have the courage to change the world.
We need heroes and sheroes… and we are going to have to answer the call, stop being victims and face the challenges if we want better futures.
The journey of a thousand steps, amazing adventure, and heartfelt courage begins with stepping over the the threshold.
Welcome to 2023.
Perpetual Disclaimer for this series:
I am not a counselor or a mental health professional. I am going to attempt to avoid things which will cause alarm or harm, but I can't know what will trigger each individual. If you need to speak to a mental health professional please know that there are resources available.
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December 22, 2022
Supernatural Aid
When myths were the only form of entertainment and before people had a reliance on science, they viewed the world through a supernatural lens. This meant to them, the supernatural was as normal as the natural. Many of our favorite adventures still have this worldview. Think of superheroes with special powers, any adventure where ancient curses or artifacts are imbibed with special powers, ghosts, and anything where the mystical invades the normal. I use this worldview in some of my stories such as The Sacrifice, where an archaeologist is sent back in time and finds himself saving the life of a child, and White Ribbons, where in a hopeless war a soldier and a child have an encounter with death, who allows them to go free and give hope to the world.
You don’t have to believe in the supernatural… but I do want to talk about the importance of worldview.
Worldview is a way of looking at the world and explaining it. It’s a lens through which you or others interpret the events and actions of those around them. It can include personal, religious, or political beliefs and seeks to answer both big questions, and yet impacts small questions and actions.
For more information: What is a worldview?
Here is an example of how a Christian worldview impacts its believers.
The Truth Project - What is a Worldview?
(Apologies for the appearance of Ravi Zacharias - this was before the 2021 sex abuse scandal when it was revealed that he was an abusive creep.)
Worldview helps us accomplish things… for example - a bleak worldview which claims that an individual cannot make a difference, there is nothing to live for, and its all gloom, doom, boom, is probably not the best for your mental health. We all feel like that sometimes (especially after engaging with the news), and I’m not suggesting that you lie to yourself, or stuff down your emotions on topics which are truly discouraging.
What I am suggesting is worldview shift, on this journey. You don’t have to get religious or fanatical about anything. You don’t have to go out and discover a sudden mystical life-consuming purpose, you just have to do some brain rewiring.
When we focus on something, our brain makes paths to those places. These paths become major roads and super highways in our brains. We can use this for our good, or it can be detremental to our mental health and the attitudes which we share with others.
So how do we do the mental road construction?
We give ourselves permission to believe new things… such as “I can make a difference.”
We consider new viewpoints… such as “I disagree with that, but I can see why you’re concerned.” This builds empathy and understanding for others and protects yourself. (See my earlier article: Dealing with Inflammatory Information)
We move to empowerment by small actions, such as turning off the addictive news cycle, or setting up a boundary which says, “I don’t have the energy to engage with that right now. I give myself permission to rest - instead of worrying in fear.”
These small actions build confidence and rewire the brain from fear to being able to take action. As I wrote in my article on dealing with inflammatory information, you want to be the sheriff of your own town. Meaning, you want to be in control of your own mental space. These steps will help you set up a mental patrol to keep the mental peace in your own mind.
The amazing thing about keeping the mental peace in your own mind, is that it affects your body as well. If you consistently work with this, your nervous system adjusts itself from fear to security, and other people will notice the difference.
This is an important technique to learn because life and those around you are going to mess up your mental space, if you let them. Upsetting things happen constantly throughout the world. This doesn’t mean you don’t feel things or have emotions - it just means your mental space doesn’t align with their consistent gloom, doom, boom. And having a mental space that came move forward with confidence peace and security allows you to answer the call of adventure.
Perpetual Disclaimer for this series:
I am not a counselor or a mental health professional. I am going to attempt to avoid things which will cause alarm or harm, but I can't know what will trigger each individual. If you need to speak to a mental health professional please know that there are resources available.
Your stories are amazing!
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December 15, 2022
The Refusal of the Call
I know some people probably thought I was being a dreamer and whimiscally imaginative (aka stupid and impractical) when I wrote last week’s post about stories healing nations.
I’m thrilled for those of you who stuck around. Those who weren’t impressed, or outright cynical… they are our object lesson for the day.
Last week I mentioned that there are stories which reinforce fear and there are stories which empower us… what we focus and spend our time on impacts how we respond to adventure and our quests.
The people who refuse to respond to adventure are listening to different stories.
We all tell ourselves stories. Each of us have heard the shamey three a.m. voice that starts with, “I’m not -” and proceeds to tell us how flawed we are.
Joseph Campell, the scholar who pioneered the mythic hero’s journey, describes those who don’t answer the call to adventure as “victims”. He states that their worlds will continue to deteriorate unless they answer the call to adventure.
I found this particularly interesting because it is fundamental to healing and life in general. There’s an entire branch of study in criminal justice called ‘victimology’. It boils down to the study of why and how people become victims of crime. The conclusion of the course? The number one reason people became victims of crime?
It had nothing to with identity of any sort… it was overwhelmingly a case of “wrong place - wrong time.”
I’m reminded of the ancient Jewish story of Esther. (Also in the Christian Bible. Read it here: Bible Gateway passage: Esther 1 - New International Version)
Eshter was a young Jewish woman who’d been brough to the palace of an enemy king and was forcibily married to him. The situation is like Anne Frank and human trafficking - only its set in ancient Persia. Esther needs to hide her ethnic identity to survive - but if her people, the Jews, are going to survive - she needs to risk everything.
She’s frightened to take a stand and answer the call of adventure, doing the brave and right thing, but if she doesn’t… the world she values… the world of her people will be destroyed in a genocide.
Esther has come to a point where her fears are about to come true. Fear paralyzes us to we can’t move forward. Its hardwired into our survival - but fear isn’t survival.
Esther’s call to adventure starts with refusing to be a victim - despite all the things which happened to her… She’s an orphan, her uncle who works in the king’s court didn’t help her escape the national round up bridal searches, he had a year to hatch an escape plan out of the palace, Esther herself had a year to also attempt escape and she could have disobeyed the training she was recieving and displeased the king. Her rebellious actions would have sent her back to the harem, which potentially would have been more safe than being crowned queen and married to an abusive and powerful jerk.
Esther’s title is a label - she has no real power. She is not in charge of her own destiny or decisions. Her predesscessor Queen Vashti said, “No,” to the king and got herself exiled. Esther even has to ask permission to see her husband, and if he doesn’t allow her to approach him she could be killed. This is not a healthy relationship, despite the royal glamor.
But Esther reaches a point where she’s effectively standing at two crossroad and both are labeled “collapse.”
Both roads are dangerous - but answer the call to adventure is what Esther chose. She refused the path of victimhood and powerlessness, even though she had every right as a woman in an abusive relationship and a member of of a threatened minority ethnic group to call herself a victim.
If she had considered herself a victim, that wouldn’t have made her emotional wounds or trauma go away… the risks before her just made it impossible to tell herself powerless stories.
She had to believe that she could make a difference.
She saw he situation and chose to step out and take control. She called a hunger strike and backed it with prayer, then exposed the archtect of genocide to her husband… over dinner, after she’d smiled at that evil man for days.
Esther challenged the status quo, stopped telling herself powerless stories and saved a nation.
How many stories affect us?
I’ve studied the work of some people who group society into seven mountains or spheres of influence. I know this leads some controversal places - but I wanted to share this image to show you how many stories affect us.
Perpetual Disclaimer for this series:
I am not a counselor or a mental health professional. I am going to attempt to avoid things which will cause alarm or harm, but I can't know what will trigger each individual. If you need to speak to a mental health professional please know that there are resources available.
Your stories are amazing!
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December 8, 2022
The Call to Adventure
Adventure has a new name. Yours. You are uniquely called and uniquely gifted to reach out and save, walk into prisons, defeat darkness and destroy evil. Yes - You. You are powerful enough to do this simply because you are who you are. Your authentic created and creative self is brace enough, strong enough and loving enough to say, “No,” to what is evil and stand against it.
When a society makes itself afriad in the name of safety and status quo dominates there is only one thing lef to do - fear the unknown.
But that is not history, science or achievement… it is a quiet death of a thousand drudgeries.
I know this and you do too.
When we are forced to regulate our dream into non-exsistance they become taunts in the quiet recesses of our hearts, where the beat a drum in a covert narrative counter to our status quo…. And we become afriad.
And we pass that fear onto our children.
That’s not the future I want for myself or any child. That’s not a future that will allow us to survive as a species.
We need to reclaim that sense of adventure… and we do that through learned behaviors. All behaviors are learned. They shown to us. They are modeled. We show bravery to our children. We teach them goodness and courage. We teach them how to react by our own reactions.
But their dreams are always larger than ours… they know how to go on adventures.
The stories we tell and show our children impact them and they stories we read, watch and interact with ourselves, impact us, even as adults.
For adults, the bulk of the stories we encounter seems to be the consistent gloom, doom, boom news cycle of fear, death and mayhem. If we do read fiction - most the stories I’m finding are dark and agnsty, just like the news cycle.
Stories like these reinforce our fear. They claim the monster is larger than us - when the reality might be that the monster is only big because its a fearsome shadow on the wall.
But if we’re scared - we won’t move at all.
That’s why adventure has to call on us - persistently.
The monomyth quest narrative teaches us what challenges are ahread, and how to overcome them. It hones skills, builds relationship and help us navigate our world from the unknown to the known and back.
The most important skill through all this?
Your journey’s knoweldge helps others and you’re not afriad to go into the unknown to find others and rescue them.
That sacred rescue and the journey back from darkness is the key to storytelling and healing. The rescue is the begining - the healing mean you have a companion and are building a relationship with them. Once your knowledge and experience have empowered your companion you will fight battles and face challenges together. Others will join you and together your stories will heal nations.
Don’t believe me?
Last year I took a counseling course. It was designed by two ladies who’d worked quietly together over twenty years healing adult survivors of human trafficking and trauma based mind control. They partnered with a scholar who I follow, and when I heard about thier course, I decided to enroll. That course has worldwide reach and they want to grow it.
I teach and talk in this blog about some of the things I’ve learned from them and others, as well as from my own life experience. This blog is impacting you, because you’re reading it.
See how this empowered story telling can work to heal entire groups of people?
This is why its vital for you to tell your story!
Perpetual Disclaimer for this series:
I am not a counselor or a mental health professional. I am going to attempt to avoid things which will cause alarm or harm, but I can't know what will trigger each individual. If you need to speak to a mental health professional please know that there are resources available.
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December 1, 2022
Welcome Back!
Welcome back!
Its December and as promised - The Monomyth Through Trauma Series is returning.
I’ve had some time to regroup and recharge.
So - Recap of the Series
The Monomyth is a story telling format which has been central to mythology for thousands of years. It is a storytelling format of a quest. Scholar Joseph Campell pioneered the analysis of the pattern as is most famous for his work, “The Hero with A Thousand Faces.”
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
Why storytelling? How does it help us?
Storytelling is powerful and central to humanity. It creates courage, inspiration and empathy. Most people can name how a story changed their viewpoint, or prompted them to action.
Stories feature centrally in all belief systems, both relegious and secular. Business presenters are now encouraged to tell stories instead of just presenting facts and figures.
The science works like this:
Our human brains make connections like massive interstate highways. The topics we concentrate on get the largest highway systems. That’s great if you have a focus on what you enjoy… but not everyone does. In fact, 19% of Americans over the age of 18 have anexity disorders.
Facts & Statistics | Anxiety and Depression Association of America, ADAA
Nineteen percent is forty million adults.
So… forty million adults’ mental highway systems lead to worry, gloom and doom.
Anexity is telling yourself stories about things that have happened, might happen, or could happen… on a consistent repeat. These stories are not always accurate, because they’re being told while the brain is in survival brain.
Survival brain is awesome - because it saves your life. Survival brain is that quick automatic jerk of the steering wheel to avoid a car accident. Survival brain also gives you that emotional red flag outside a dark alley, or when a date is going badly and you need to leave.
The problem with survival brain is that its a horrible storyteller. Survival brain wants to save you, but it only kicks in when there’s a threat. This unfortunatly means that its storytelling is prone to threat analysis and not logical thinking. When anexity starts, it becomes an emotional and phyiscal mind body loop, so your information highways never stop repeating gloomy scenarios.
Telling yourself different stories creates new brain pathways away from that gloom scenario. You can make new highways toward empowerment by telling stories which take you from the victim of your created doom, into a hero.
An example:
Many women have taken self defense courses after dangerous encouters. They didn’t like their body’s reaction to the dangerous incident, so rather than replay the incident and what happened… they put their body and minds into action by learning how to defend themselves.
These ladies rewrote their survival brains through movement. Self defense also includes storytelling of a dangerous encounter, and then the motion of what to do to save your life in that situation. This storytelling is done in a safe enviroment, bringing empowerment with training.
Here’s a video demonstrating what I mean…
5 REAL Women's Self Defense Tips - Krav Maga
Note how she sets up a scenario and then gives the training to get out of it. The scenario is a story and the training is the new brain highway toward empowerment - not fear.
The goal of this series is to use the monomyth structure to not only heal and empower, but to teach you to tell stories which rewrite your brain highways from demoralized to heroic, and able to face challenges which come your way. You may not always be fearless, and it may not always be easy - but you’ll know not to fall into gloom, doom, boom. This is not doomsday - this is destiny.
Perpetual Disclaimer for this series:
I am not a counselor or a mental health professional. I am going to attempt to avoid things which will cause alarm or harm, but I can't know what will trigger each individual. If you need to speak to a mental health professional please know that there are resources available.
Your stories are amazing!
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November 29, 2022
Covers for Your Stories
So you’re working on your novel…. Its almost the end of November.
You need a brain break.
Today I’m going to teach you how to design a cover.A cover is a composite image that is supposed to tease the contents of your book and get people’s attention. It should have at least one image, the title of your work and your name.
The title should be larger than your name. Unless you’re already famous and people will pick up your book because they see your name. (Most writers are not this famous.)
How do you find and design this image?You want an image that represents your plot or character. Ideally it should represent your plot, lead character and the challenges they face.
You always want to choose a good quality public domain image.
Public domain means that it is free to use for anyone or any purpose and the copyright on it has either been waved or is expired. You shouldn’t have to pay for these images.
In the United States public domain images can be found within government databases. Other sources are photo archives for advertising such as Pexels (photos and videos) pexels.com and Pixabay 2.7 million+ Stunning Free Images to Use Anywhere. Pixabay also offers music, illustrations and vector art.
If you’re located in another country or using another country’s database for your images you will have to follow their rules. It may sound intimidating, but usually that involves sending an email with some basic info on your project and waiting for them to get back to you. I’ve done this a few times and its not difficult.
Once you’ve found and chosen your photos think about how to arrange them. You’ll probably have figured this out in your head as you were searching for photos.
Then open up some version of a program like PowerPoint or Keynote. (I’m most familiar with these two, so that’s what I’m using.)
PowerPoint and Keynote have multiple options when it comes to filters and methods of contrast for your images. They also aren’t extremely complex and don’t require specialized knowledge such as Photoshop type programs.
If you’re stuck, there’s a photography method called ‘The Rule of Thirds’. It splits the screen into a graph with three columns, and three rows. (Think of it as nine total squares.)
At the points where the squares intersect is where you want your subject matter. I was trained in photography and I find myself doing this automatically when I arrange things.
This is a cover that I designed for my short story mystery romance, Five O’Clock Shadow. Its currently available on Amazon. The red lines demonstrate the rule of thirds. Notice how the characters in the image align with the intersections of the blocks.
Here’s an article if I’m not explaining things well enough Rule of Thirds in Photography (15 Examples + Tips)
For your title and author name, use the text box function and experiment until you get it right. The title should be centered toward the top of the image. Your name as an author can be centered at the bottom, or off to the side. Sometimes I’ve seen it under the title, but I find that always looks cluttered in my work.
If you publish through Amazon, they will help you with this process by giving you guidelines.
Your stories are amazing!
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November 22, 2022
When the Critic Gets the Final Word
Last week I talked about using music to turn off the judgemental critical in your head.
There’s only one time when you need a critic… when you need to improve. Unfortunately - that critic - the helpful one who pushes you to do better, that type of critic is excessively rare.Finding someone who has enough skill to say, “This is good. Can you make this part better?” Or “Can you work on this aspect of your writing?” …that’s rare.
The more common type of critic is that hyper judgemental creativity shut down that comes with the question, “Am I doing this well enough?”We all have that critic. Sometimes it takes the form of a person who is a total downer on themselves and feels the need to spread it like manure on a farm field. The unfortunate thing about this type of person is that their highly hurtful words tend to stick in our brains and live there.
The most awesome thing you can do about them?
Prove them wrong. And this starts by hanging up the emotional phoneline. You don’t need them to be judging your work, while you’re still writing it.
You need to concentrate on your work.
This is a type of critic you can barricade in a certain room inside your brain, tell them to knit socks and twiddle thier thumbs until you get your novel done.
The writing process isn’t a place for judgement. If you’re an instinct writer, you don’t even know where your work is going. You and your critic can come back later and correct your spelling, punctuation and go plot hole hunting.That’s a partnership. Anything else with your critic can quickly become abusive. And no one needs to be themselves up.Your stories are amazing!
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November 15, 2022
Using Music to Write
Music is powerful. It doesn’t seem so, but what’s your favorite hero without their theme music? If you don’t believe me - watch a movie trailer without the sound.
Why is this?
Language lives in one part of our brain. Music lives in another. When we plug music into our brains, it activates the music section. When we sit down to write with music in our brains, the brain is forced to multitask.This can be helpful on two fronts:
It forces the brain to focus.
Because our brain is focusing on our writing and the music at the same time, we tend to be less judgemental and critical in our writing.
Tuning out the judgement of our mind is beneficial. Editing can be done later. That’s when we need our critical mind.
We don’t need our critical mind when we’re writing.The critical mind slows us down. And I’ll talk about that next week.In the meantime, find some writing music and get back to NaNoWriMo!
Your stories are amazing.
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November 8, 2022
Write to Free Speech
The American Bill of Rights attached to the United States Constituion has an amazing first clause,
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
No matter what you beleive about politics, I’m going to take you through a little history lesson for writers on why freedom of speech is vital for even fiction writers.
What is Freedom of Speech?Freedom of speech is the Constitionally protected ability to say without fear of repercussions from the government things like, “King James is a pimple.” (a true quote, but I can’t find the Revolutionary War era source because the internet is obsessed with Dr. Pimple Popper. I wish I were kidding.)
While this isn’t particularly flattering for the historical figures involved - it certainly wasn’t a life threating declaration. However, people were placed into prison for speaking up. This meant that documents like the Bill of Rights and the Constitution were infinately controversal and dangerous to even think about, much less be the author of.
Why is freedom of speech important for writers?Its our writing. The best writing is dangerous. The best writing will tell dangerous stories. They may not appear dangerous in the plot blurb on the back cover - but writers are inheirently dangerous because we work in the currency of ideas.
New ideas are always frightening. And throughout history there have been people and organizations in power who wanted to shut them down.
The printing press was originally made to produce Bibles. The church feared if the people could read the Bible for themselves, they would lose power and control. And they did. The Christian church fractured in Europe.
During the American Civil War African American slaves were forbidden from learning how to read. The ability to read meant that they could forge papers and gain their freedom. Post Civil War Reconstruction saw the opening of thousands of schools to serve formerly enslaved communities. They tied their ability to read not only to freedom of belief and movement - but also to their right to vote. They wanted to be civically involved and change their country for the better.
During World War II, in Nazi occupied Europe, printing presses and paper were highly regulated in an effort to stop illegal propaganda against the Nazis and to prevent the forging of documents. These falsified documents were life and death to millions of refugees. The anti-Nazi propaganda inspired others to join the illegal Resistance forces who offered humanitarian aid, food, shelter and often conducted para-military operations against the Nazis. The Resistance’s writing took not only political forms of opposition, calling for human rights and freedom, but reports of troop movements and fortifications…. when the time for invasion came, lives were saved because of the accurate information gathered.
For the sake of their writing - millions of people have died throughout history… for holding onto dangerous writings.The danger of writers’ words is still going on today.Check out this article: Myanmar poets speak out from the front lines of protest
That’s correct. Its a collection of writers throughout history and modern day… doing dangerous things… writing dangerous words of freedom.
Freedom of speech is not the right to say anything all the time for self serving purposes - Its a vital realization that our words matter, and we should use them well. Not only for ourselves, but for those who will read them in the future.
Today is midterm voting. Turn outs are historically lower at midterms, which means each person’s vote potentially has more weight to it. Voting is a freedom of speech. It is a small moment where each of us gets a choice to make, and where we mark the ballot determines the future. So, take a break from writing and use your freedom of speech to go vote.
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November 1, 2022
Dealing with a Chaotic Brain
Welcome to National Novel Writing Month!Now… go write.
I’m kidding. Sort of.
I’ve never managed NaNoWriMo because of my chaotic brain. I’m an instinct writer, and that means my brain looks like its been ransacked by a tornado. Yet I still write, and I still manage to get things completed.
The secret?
I write what I want to and where I want to in the story. It doesn’t matter where the scene is, if its banging around in my head it gets written down. I’ll sort it out later.
Honestly - I get more books that way. The process is chaotic, and recently I’ve discovered one of my novels is actually two novels. Whoops? Maybe? But not really - that just makes the series larger.
How to Harness Your Chaotic Brain
1. You don’t.
2. You let your brain go write what it wants to write.
3. Don’t analyze it. Don’t question it. Don’t judge it.
There is one caveat to this…
When we focus on something it gets bigger. This can be good if you’re writing a novel. However, this can cause massive problems if this is something you’re afraid of or a mental health issue.In the past several years there’s been a lot of fear going around the world. And while fear of any type or thing is a legitimate body response - focusing on it when you don’t need to wears down your body.So we need to do something empowering to put our fears in their place. For writers, that looks like turning them into fictional victories.How does this help in the real world?I was chatting with a retired police officer (and writer!!! Check out his work here: Sig Swanstrom) who taught me that when we run through scenarios in our brains about what we’re going to do in order to triumph over dangerous situations - we teach our brains and our bodies that we can win. That we can be victorious over our fears.
Now this doesn’t warrant an obsessive repeated scenario which consumes your every waking thought - but getting up out of your chair and shadow boxing invisible villains into the dust - that’s training your brain and your characters to win.
And anyone who reads your work in the future - gets that training too.
Pass on the victory.
Let your chaotic brain work for you.
Your stories are amazing!
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