Writing our story

Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies-for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into the text-as into the world and into history —by her own movement.  – Helene CixouxStories are how our ancestors wove the fabric of meaning and existence as they made their way in their lives. Telling your story helps you to explore yourself, your roots, and your journey through life. Think about taking out your notebook to begin. "One day, this is what happened..." can be a beginning. There are so many beginnings. "Once upon a time" is a powerful beginning. The beginning is the hardest part for most people. Whatever beginning you choose, whether you start with today or the day you were born or some other time is the beginning for your story. As you wind back and forth, from present to past, from  who you are now to how you got here to where you are going, write the story you are living.Jung wrote in Memories, Dreams and Reflections:Thus it is that I have now undertaken, in my eighty-third year, to tell my personal myth. I can only make direct statements, only “tell stories.” Whether or not the stories are “true” is not the problem. The only question is whether what I tell is my fable, my truth.The goal of all life, the end point, death, is what lies in front of us. In the third act of life it looms larger than it has before...
Source: Jung At Heart - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: blogs