Rewriting your story
Posted on April 02, 2021 by Paulette Blais, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.
The way you tell your life experiences creates and colours their meaning. Coaching can help you tell your story better to live your life better.
Human beings are all story-tellers. We tell our life story, the happenings of the day, recount joyous and terrible events. Even if we don’t reveal much or easily to others, we tell ourselves our stories. The way we tell our experiences creates and colours its meaning. “We become the narratives that we construct to tell our lives” (Jerome Bruner, 1997).
I recently watched an amazing webinar: How to Rewrite the Story of Your Life, presented by the positive psychologist Margarita Tarragona. I invite you to watch it, too. She explains so well how the way we tell our stories shapes how we experience our lives.
When you are “stuck” you are under the influence of a dominant story. This could be: “I’m a procrastinator, “I’m disorganized”, “I rub people the wrong way”, “I just can’t change”.
Through coaching you can rewrite the story you tell yourself about yourself. There are many ways to help you with this: journaling, re-telling, re-framing, focusing on gratitude, visioning.
As your coach I can hold up a different lens and provide different perspectives. I want you to see the hardships you have overcome, the strength you embody and the possibilities you can create. I want you to savour good experiences. I want you to recognize and celebrate your progress, success and resilience. You can learn and practice how to limit negative ruminations and lessen the power of those old stories that limit you moving forward.
You can be pulled by the better life in your future rather than being pushed and constrained by your past. Tell your story better to live your life better.
