The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss [Paperback]

A practical and inspiring guide to transformational personal storytelling,The Story You Need to Tellis the product of Sandra Marinellas pioneering work with veterans and cancer patients, her years of teaching writing, and her research into its profound healing properties. Riveting true stories illustrate Marinellas 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.Sandra Marinella has written a wonderful guide for all those struggling to make sense of the story of their lives! It can serve as the perfect prescription for real healing.
— Susan M. Love, MD, author ofDr. Susan Loves Breast Book

Sandra MarinellasThe Story You Needto Tell is a collection of illuminating stories that shows us the power of writing to transform our lives.
— Ellen Bass,poet and bestselling author ofThe Courage to Heal,Beginning to Heal,Like a Beggar,Mules of Love,The Human Line, andFree Your Mind

Sandra Marinella deserves our recognition for her years of dedicated work with writers, veterans, and cancer patients. Her incredible research, her networking, and her gift for words should carry this book into the pantheon of great books on writing.
—Christina Baldwin,authorStorycatcherandLifes Companion

Sandra Marinella brings keen research skills, a brilliant storytelling voice, and a distinguished teaching career to this cohesive guide for writing the unspeakable. Her vivid prose twines her own powerful cancer story with dozens of other courageous voices, each writing the road from devasl£3