Therapeutic Stories to Heal and Empower

Book excerpt: One hundred therapeutic stories each accompanied by recommendations on using & changing them. Therapeutic stories have many themes in messages directed to the listener's wise and intuitive side; among these are messages created to increase the listener's sense of personal power, self-acceptance and capacity to love and be loved. Stories may also challenge the listener to acknowledge and connect with their strengths and resources, find a positive purpose for their life, perceive both themselves and their world in a clear and undistorted way; establish healthy social relationships and/or to "let go" and heal wounds and shame caused by abuse and/or traumas wounds in their past. Used by therapists, counselors, teachers and others in the helping professions.