The Healing Power of Storytelling: Using Personal Narrative to Navigate Illness, Trauma, and Loss Brewster Annie
For patients, care providers, and anyone who has faced a traumatic or life-changing health event: a research-backed guide to reframing your story and reclaiming your life through personal…
Specifikacia The Healing Power of Storytelling: Using Personal Narrative to Navigate Illness, Trauma, and Loss Brewster Annie
For patients, care providers, and anyone who has faced a traumatic or life-changing health event: a research-backed guide to reframing your story and reclaiming your life through personal narrative.Our healthcare system isn't set up to meet the emotional needs of patients. 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." But storytelling your way through a medical crisis by digging into, intentionally crafting and ultimately sharing your narrative, can help you come to terms with a difficult diagnosis, find and create new ways to thrive, and reclaim your agency amid fear, change, and uncertainty.When Harvard-trained physician Dr. Annie Brewster was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2001, she realized firsthand that the