The Story I Tell Myself: How Self-Narratives Define Our Identity, Hold Us Back and How We Can Change Them

by Peter Ash

You know you who are, right? Of course you do, you’re you! But what if who you think you are is actually holding you back, closing off exciting opportunities that are right in front of you, and preventing you from achieving your best potential? This book explores the concept of self-narrative, or the stories that we tell ourselves about who we are and our place in the world.

In this book, I explore how understanding our own self-narratives and challenging them can enable you to change how you think about yourself and open up those opportunities that you could be missing. Using examples from my own journey, I provide a process that you can follow to increase your own self-awareness, understand what your self-narrative says and how it impacts your daily life, and gives a template on how to make changes to your narrative.

We are powerful storytellers, telling ourselves our most impactful story of all. By understanding and changing your story you can make real positive change in your life. Use your own story to learn, grow and achieve what you want.

Genres: Nonfiction

106 pages, Paperback

Published April 23, 2018

Reviews

[Wayne McCoy · Rating 4 out of 5]

'The Story I Tell Myself: How Self-Narratives Define Our Identity, Hold Us Back and How We Can Change Them' by Peter Ash is a self-help book written as a sort of memoir.

Author Peter Ash talks about his journey to change the self-narrative in his life. He felt weighed down and like his life could have been more. He reviewed the things that happened to him as a child and the kind of story he was living his life by. Then he worked on slowly changing that story and changing his life.

It's a personal journey and because of that, more hopeful for people (like me) who struggle with this kind of thing. Rather than some lofty "expert" here is someone who struggled like us and found a way out. It's well written and I enjoyed reading it.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Kobo Writing Life and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.

[Karma · Rating 3 out of 5]

For me, this was a decent read. I have come to realise this concept over years of self-reflection. This book can be a good introduction if you want to explore the concept further. I don't think this is something which can be done over a cuppa of tea. This requires weeks and months of constant effort and vigilance. Overall a decent read.

[Nicole Hoffmann · Rating 3 out of 5]

Was a good message and a nice short little read but I think because this was the authors first book it wasn’t quite as refined. He repeated himself a lot and it was a bit distracting. The message is good though and I’ll definitely be looking into what story I’ve written about myself and how it might be holding me back.

[Susan M Wells, Bookmark Reviews · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very helpful

I really appreciated his honesty and overcoming spirit, his willingness to confront the story he believes a out himself. Motivating!