Welcome to Story Medicine, my newsletter for the Storyhood® community. Twice a month, I share something new – a lesson I learned, an idea I wrestled, or something perplexing I just found – plus a story prompt for you to explore in your own voice.
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Storytelling as a Practice
New to Story Medicine? Start with this foundational piece on what storytelling as a practice really means.
#6: Aunty Carol enters the world fully expressed
Here is the blog I wrote to introduce Aunty Carol to the World in the fall of 2020 This is who I am. I’m sitting on the living room floor, red coffee cup from a French restaurant overlooking the Forbidden City and headphones to my right, iPhone with a flowery case to my left, laptop…
#5: Who is Aunty Carol?
One of the best pieces of advice anyone ever gave me was from Kerri Kelly, author of the fabulous book, American Detox. “Don’t give people advice unless they ask for it,” she said, shaking her head no and walking me back from the ledge of having given someone I look up to as a mentor…
#4: What do we mean by “accountability?”
At the beginning of 2025, I made a commitment to finish and publish the book I had been writing about storytelling and healing. I signed up Luvvie Ajayi Jones’ Book Academy to make me accountable for finishing it this calendar year. Luvvie’s course and community are extremely powerful and generous, and I strongly recommend The…
#3: Sitting in the same place, but everything is different …
I feel like every spring there is a day when the colors in my neighborhood are so vibrant I want to dance … and then, a week later or so, it vanishes … After I recorded this video last month, I started meditating on how each of those spring days is really unique, how it’s…
#2: Who is someone important you almost never met?
Last week, my husband Jed and I were at a dinner honoring Dune Thorne, Congresswoman Sarah McBride, Kristen Caskey, Adrienne Warren and the Women’s Project Theater. One of the questions that often shows up when you’re meeting new people is “how did you meet?” “I wasn’t supposed to be there when I met Jed …”…
#1: Ask the Universe for something more you can do …
“Someday you must tell me,” my friend texts, “to whom I owe thanks for introducing us to one another.” And so I answered … “The Universe connected us. “ Here’s what happened … I was writing about Gaza and working through a lot of childhood beliefs that didn’t serve me as an adult in the…