Posts Tagged ‘therapy group’
I had been chronically ill for over twenty years, and a therapist for seven, when I came up with a brilliant plan. I would form a therapeutic writing and storytelling group for people struggling with life-changing illness and disability, and frame it around the idea of the hero’s journey. After all, wouldn’t it be better if people could come to think of themselves instead as heroes on a transformative journey rather than feeling like victims betrayed by their bodies?
The only problem was—I didn’t know a thing about the hero’s journey. But I was pretty sure that I was on one, and that anyone facing a life-changing illness or disability might be challenged to reframe their experience through that lens. So I started cramming.
You might say this was my Call to Adventure. [Read More …]