Stories are powerful. We are constantly weaving stories, and so it’s no surprise that aspects of storytelling can be found in lots of types of psychotherapy. Narrative therapy is perhaps the most straightforward about its importance, placing it front and centre.5 In narrative therapy stories are seen as the connecting lines between the dots of events. I love this way of thinking about how we make sense of what happens. The exact same events can be made sense of in radically different ways, just as the same dots on a piece of paper could be connected in different patterns, or the same stars in
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