Why Understanding Your Story Matters
An in depth conversation.
Happy Friday readers!
I’ve got a few essays in the works, the next one being about a barbershop experience/middle school insecurities/Dumbo/Self-agency and I promise there is an interesting through line.
For today, I want to share a recent podcast I was interviewed on where we discuss the importance of understanding our story.
This typically isn’t the content I share here, but it felt fitting for More to the Story since a lot of what I talk about in the episode is what I hope to bring in this newsletter.
In this episode we discuss:
Coming alive and connecting to your story.
Having self-compassion toward the parts of us we hate.
Emotional enmeshment with a parent and the affects.
How to know if we are reacting to something that is happening in the present or our past.
How becoming a parent can surface pain you experienced with your own parent.
I hope you find it encouraging and you might even send it to someone to initiate a dialogue of what it means for you to engage your story.
If you’re a podcaster and would like to hear more, here are the shows I’ve been interviewed on this year.
With care,
Blake
More to the Story by Blake Roberts
I’m so grateful you take the time out of your busy life to read these words, or in today’s case, listen to this episode. When I launched this letter a year and a half ago I didn’t know what to expect. I still don’t to be honest but it’s encouraging there are so many of you here.
I’m a therapist by day and spend most of my time journeying into the depths of peoples stories and trauma. It’s heavy work but holy work and I’m honored I get to do it.
When I write, it does something for me. And my hope is that it does something for you. I hope it invites you to be curious about what is below the surface for you. What the more is to your story. That it speaks to you in a way you didn’t know you needed.
So, thanks for being here.
Be kind and stay curious.
I’m really looking forward to listening to this. I have a suspicion it’s going to speak to some things I need to hear right now. I think I’ll be doing some hard but holy work of my own. Ouch.