October 8, 2013

The Everlasting Healing Power of a Story

HSA, Journal Archives / October 8, 2013 / By Healing Stories SIG

By Chris King. When presenting my “How to Tell Personal Stories”workshop at a 1993 Ohio storytelling conference, I shared the story of my son’s bout with cancer in 1989 for the first time in front of a live audience. Finally, I could tell it with the truth and drama it possessed. Why for the first […]

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Where Monsters Cannot Enter

HSA, Journal Archives / October 8, 2013 / By Healing Stories SIG

by Laura Simms. In a tale from the Caucusus, a girl’s demand brings balance into the world. She requests that the Rose of Paradise be brought to her by her father. Her dangerous confrontation is with a Div and his Div sister, monster- like creatures that guard and covet the Rose, stolen and kept in

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