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Reframe your story–and reclaim your life–through the transformative practice of writing and storytelling. The Healing Power of Storytelling PDF

When Harvard-trained physician Dr. Annie Brewster was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2001, she realized firsthand that the medical system to which she’d devoted her entire career was failing patients. The experience was dehumanizing. Her doctors weren’t listening. And the confusion, fear, and shame she felt around her diagnosis was preventing her from truly healing, claiming her story, and living her fullest, richest life.

The fact is, doctors can give you a life-changing diagnosis, but they’re not equipped to help you deal with the inner fallout: the confusion, anxiety, trauma, and dread that comes after “I have some bad news.” Here, Dr. Brewster shows how writing your own unique healing story can help you process what comes next–to come to terms, create new ways to thrive, and even reclaim your personal power amid fear, change, and uncertainty.

Dr. Brewster and journalist Rachel Zimmerman each share their own personal stories, acting as expert guides as you move forward on your healing journey. With exercises, reflections, writing prompts, and stories from other real patients, Dr. Brewster and Zimmerman show how you can:

• Process the difficult emotions that come with life-changing diagnosis

• Move beyond being the hero of your own story to become the author of your own story

• Craft your narrative and share it in whatever medium speaks to you: music, audio, art, or writing

• Integrate a traumatic health event into a new and evolving identity

• Use applied storytelling techniques to strengthen connections between you and your loved ones (and even your care providers)

• Cultivate resilience to move forward amid uncertainty and fear

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The Writers

ANNIE BREWSTER, MD, is an Assistant Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a practicing physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. She was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2001. She started recording patient narratives in 2010 and founded Health Story Collaborative (HSC) in 2013. Brewster lives in Cambridge, MA with her husband, four children, and two dogs. She loves to hike, run in the woods, ski, and play ice hockey. You can learn more at www.healthstorycollaborative.org and @HealthStoryCo.

RACHEL ZIMMERMAN has been a journalist, writer, and editor for more than two decades, including as a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, a health reporter for WBUR, and co-founder of the blog CommonHealth. She has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, and more. A Brooklyn native, Zimmerman lives in Cambridge, MA, with her family. Yoga and running keep her grounded. Reach her at https://www.rachelzimmerman.net/ or @zimmerman082.

Proportions of The Healing Power of Storytelling PDF

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ North Atlantic Books (February 1, 2022)
  Language ‏ : ‎ English
  Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  International Standard Book Number-10 ‏ : ‎ 1623176697
  International Standard Book Number-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1623176693
  Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
  Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.62 x 8.92 inches
  Best Sellers Rank: #25,604 in Books

Reviews From Customers

Laura Rabinovitz
Amazing book!
February 16, 2022

This book is phenomenal! So personal, so poignant, so much wisdom. Every doctor in training should read this book and it should be in the waiting room of every chronic health care clinic. Thank you for reminding us all (or teaching us) that stories and community are medicinal.

Pam F. Engelbert
A reminder to listen and tell our stories
May 30, 2022

A well written book that reminds its readers that stories need to be told. It balances research with a personal aspect. Plus it guides the reader how to share their own story. In a day and age when people are shouting at each other, this book invites us to communicate compassionately.

Richard P.
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A Transformative Experience
February 7, 2022
Under ordinary circumstances, it is only minutes after finishing a book that I find myself sitting at my desk eagerly typing away my review.

There are, however, those times when a book demands more reflection and consideration. There are those times when I need to allow an author’s words to wash over me as I immerse myself in their words, their ideas, and the experience I’ve had with their book.

Annie Brewster’s “The Healing Power of Storytelling: Using Personal Narrative to Navigate Illness, Trauma, and Loss” is such a book.

Brewster, a Harvard-trained physician who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2001, has crafted with “The Healing Power of Storytelling” an incredibly intelligent yet deeply personal framework for moving forward through illness, trauma, and loss through the power of words and the power of storytelling.

As a paraplegic and double amputee with spina bifida who has lived 50+ years past my life expectancy, I found myself enthralled by “The Healing Power of Storytelling.” This is partly because of how the book affirmed the role creativity has played in my own journey and partly because Brewster put words to things that have danced around in my heart and in my mind for years.

It was only a couple years ago that I found myself on a downward spiral, a 10-day hospitalization after nearly 30 years without having been inpatient left me demoralized and an above-knee amputee after 20+ years as a double below-knee amputee. As I found myself, and still find myself, re-learning life and adapting in new ways I also faced having to end an important event I’d led for 30 years because the physical demand had become too much.

In essence, I felt like I was losing my story.

In most ways, I’ve bounced back yet internally there’s been an absence of peace and more than a little chaos. The experience of reading “The Healing Power of Storytelling” was like the experience of light bulb after light bulb popping on as if I was amidst paparazzi and suddenly I realized my story had merely changed and a new chapter was waiting to be written.

Brewster, writing with journalist Rachel Zimmerman, is refreshingly matter-of-fact in discussing her medical profession and its frequent failing of patients. As Brewster notes, a doctor can serve up a life-changing diagnosis but is often ill-equipped, or just plain unwilling, to help you deal with the internal fallout that unfolds. Brewster acknowledges that while she’s long embraced storytelling even she’d fallen into this cycle, a cycle that seems practically built into the institution of medicine.

Utilizing stories from patients, exercises, writing prompts, and reflections, Brewster helps each of us develop a transformative process of writing and storytelling that helps the processing of all the emotions that come with a life-changing diagnosis, helps one transform from being the “hero” of one’s story to the actual author (There’s a huge difference!), helps one develop the practice of creating one’s own story in whatever medium feels right, helps the integrating process for a life-changing diagnosis into one’s personal identity, guides the utilization of storytelling techniques into strengthening relationships with loved ones, friends, peers, and even medical professionals, and empowers one to be more resilient and move forward through the fears and anxiety.

“The Healing Power of Storytelling” is a unique combination of wonderfully researched and emotionally resonant. I cried, perhaps more than I’d like to admit, but I also found myself taking notes and reading further time and time again. It’s a relatively short book at just over 200 pages, yet it’s a book that is best experienced and interacted with throughout the reading process.

I gained appreciation for my own primary care physician, a woman who is relentless in her pursuit of my wellness yet also picked up the phone and called me when she heard that my mother had passed away to see if I was alright.

Who does that?

“The Healing Power of Storytelling” doesn’t offer miracles. It offers tools for living a more full and satisfying life and it offers tools for claiming what I’d call the holiness of my body even when it feels like anything but a temple. Brewster feels like a companion on the journey and I found myself putting together my own narrative puzzle pieces and having more than a few “Aha!” moments throughout my time with the book.

There’s simply no doubt this is a book I will revisit time and again.

As someone who experienced a lot of early life trauma, much of my life has been dedicated to holding space for others to tell their stories and, indeed, moving forward and modeling living into one’s own story. Yet, after reading “The Healing Power of Storytelling” I began to realize that I still, at least at times, resist storytelling when it comes to my own body. I began to understand why and, perhaps more importantly, I began to find ways that I could reverse this cycle and reclaim my personal narrative in its entirety.

“The Healing Power of Storytelling” is a valuable book for anyone who has experienced illness, trauma, or loss and especially those who’ve struggled with navigating through the maze of fear, anxiety, doubt, and that icky feeling of being a diagnosis.

Incredibly moving and thought-provoking, “The Healing Power of Storytelling” is transformative literature at its finest.
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Anne M. Bennett
Wisdom to transform any difficult journey
February 27, 2022
This is a powerful, important, and relevant book for anyone who’s been through anything difficult, to help them tell their story, and WHY they need to tell their story. The chapters include a good mix of the author’s own story, current research, examples, and suggestions for our personal use. At the end of each chapter there is a “takeaways” section with prompts and concrete suggestions to put into one’s personal practice the ideas set forth in each chapter.

The topics include Practical approaches to telling your story, finding meaning in death, Storytelling for social change, the power of story to change our relationships… And more!

If your life has been, or is being, shaped by something traumatic, tragic, or just plain difficult, I highly recommend this book. Take your time with it, allow its wisdom to transform your journey.

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