The Story You Need to Tell Review

The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss  by Sandra Marinella, MA, MEd

Genre:  Non-fiction

Publisher: New World Library

Source: Sent from publisher for review

Book Description:

A practical and inspiring guide to transformational personal storytelling, The Story You Need to Tell is the product of Sandra Marinella’s pioneering work with veterans and cancer patients, her years of teaching writing, and her research into its profound healing properties. Riveting true stories illustrate Marinella’s methods for understanding, telling, and editing personal stories in ways that foster resilience and renewal. She also shares her own experience of using journaling and expressive writing to navigate challenges including breast cancer and postpartum depression. Each of the techniques, prompts, and exercises she presents helps us “to unravel the knot inside and to make sense of loss.”

Review:

This is a different kind of self-help book, it's a way to heal yourself by writing. The author uses her own health battle to help you heal and find your voice. She writes from experience and shares that with all potential writers, even if it's just for you and not publication.

 She offers writing prompts to help you find your writing voice and to start to heal from whatever is troubling you. I found it helpful because I've never been a big journal writer, but this book helped me rethink how I want to tell my story and heal from losses that I've suffered.

If you're struggling to feel better about yourself and heal then I highly recommend this book. Thank you to Monique at New World Library for introducing this book to me.

Happy Reading!

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