Coaching practices for Recognize Mental Narratives
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- The same exact tape plays every time things go sideways
- The new way I’m trying to see myself only seems to hold when I’m alone with it
- I’m so convinced I’m "the one who always falls apart" that I can’t see anything else
- Something scared my child
- I can recount exactly what happened
Practices that may help
- Name the story your mind is telling
Recognize the narrative your emotions run — the "I’m not good enough" or "no one cares" story — so it can’t run you.
Emotional Agility, Made Practical - Definitional Ceremonies and Outsider Witnesses
Invite meaningful others to witness and retell the new story — being known differently by others consolidates the new identity.
Narrative Therapy: Rewriting the Stories That Define You - Finding Unique Outcomes (Exceptions to the Problem Story)
Surface moments when the problem did NOT dominate — these are the seeds of an alternative story.
Narrative Therapy: Rewriting the Stories That Define You - Name it to tame it: tell the story of the big feeling
Help the child narrate what happened and how it felt — storytelling is brain integration.
The Whole-Brain Child (Siegel & Bryson) - Landscape of Identity and Action Questions
Use two question types to map both what the person DID (action) and what that reveals about who they ARE (identity).
Narrative Therapy: Rewriting the Stories That Define You - Narrative Therapy: Rewriting the Stories That Define You
Narrative therapy, developed by Michael White and David Epston, holds that people live by stories — about who they are, what they’re capable of, and what their experiences mean. By separating the person from the problem ("the person is not the problem; the problem is the problem") and finding "unique outcomes" that contradict a limiting story, therapy opens space to author a more empowering alternative. The evidence base is growing but smaller and less methodologically uniform than CBT. - State a prediction before looking at the outcome
Commit to a prediction before the result is known to prevent the narrative from rewriting your memory of your forecast.
The Narrative Fallacy: Why We Can’t Stop Making Stories - Therapeutic Letters
A therapist’s written letter to a client between sessions — documenting alternative-story gains before they fade.
Narrative Therapy: Rewriting the Stories That Define You - Shift identity from self-concept to awareness itself
Experiment with "I am the aware space" rather than "I am my thoughts and feelings."
Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical - Work the four channels of traumatic memory: sense, emotion, cognition, meaning
NET explicitly addresses all four channels in which trauma is encoded — not just thought.
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET): Weaving Trauma Into a Coherent Life Story
Related concerns
- Alternative Story Therapy
Surface moments when the problem did NOT dominate — these are the seeds of an alternative story.
Finding Unique Outcomes (Exceptions to the Problem Story)
- Narrative Therapy Rewriting The Stories That Define You As A Parent
Narrative therapy, developed by Michael White and David Epston, holds that people live by stories — about who they are, what they’re capable of, and what their experiences mean. By separating the person from the problem ("the person is not the problem; the problem is the problem") and finding "unique outcomes" that contradict a limiting story, therapy opens space to author a more empowering alternative. The evidence base is growing but smaller and less methodologically uniform than CBT.
- Narrative Therapy Techniques
Narrative therapy, developed by Michael White and David Epston, holds that people live by stories — about who they are, what they’re capable of, and what their experiences mean. By separating the person from the problem ("the person is not the problem; the problem is the problem") and finding "unique outcomes" that contradict a limiting story, therapy opens space to author a more empowering alternative. The evidence base is growing but smaller and less methodologically uniform than CBT.
- Net Narrative Therapy
Narrative therapy, developed by Michael White and David Epston, holds that people live by stories — about who they are, what they’re capable of, and what their experiences mean. By separating the person from the problem ("the person is not the problem; the problem is the problem") and finding "unique outcomes" that contradict a limiting story, therapy opens space to author a more empowering alternative. The evidence base is growing but smaller and less methodologically uniform than CBT.
- What Is Narrative Therapy
Narrative therapy, developed by Michael White and David Epston, holds that people live by stories — about who they are, what they’re capable of, and what their experiences mean. By separating the person from the problem ("the person is not the problem; the problem is the problem") and finding "unique outcomes" that contradict a limiting story, therapy opens space to author a more empowering alternative. The evidence base is growing but smaller and less methodologically uniform than CBT.
- Absent But Implicit Narrative Therapy
Every problem story implies a violated value — surfacing that value reveals the person’s strengths, not just their struggles.
The Absent But Implicit: What Problems Reveal About What We Value
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