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1. #TELLING MY STORY OVER BLOG HOW TO#
2. #TELLING MY STORY OVER BLOG FULL#
3. #TELLING MY STORY OVER BLOG PROFESSIONAL#

You didn’t need to learn about my love of travel, or that I lead yoga and creativity workshops, or that I dig colorful birds and think Game of Thrones is wicked. They imply what I’m going to be talking about in this piece. I mentioned being a writer, author, communications specialist and Get Storied’s Writing Coach & Editor, because those are the most relevant that I needed you to learn right now. Placing literal, convenient definitions on yourself up front in your story is a simple but powerful resource for ushering your reader into a relationship with you through context, relevance and “why.” You’re not dishonoring your great-granny, or yourself, but using helpful descriptions to help others “get you” better.

You don’t have a problem putting a label on a box of stuff when you’re moving into a new place, right? Does the stuff inside feel dishonored? You might place an antique vase that belonged to your great-grandmother inside one of those boxes, and just labeled the box “Dining Room Stuff.” Would great-grandma care? Labels and definitions are just practical. We’re trying to help people understand us, even if it’s a small window of who we are and what we’re doing in the world. For yogis, who are determined to shed their labels, self-applying titles and definitions will feel constricting.” You’re a yogi, for God’s sakes! You fundamentally understand that definitions and labels tend to be liars. “Good!” I replied, “You shouldn’t like to define yourself.

#TELLING MY STORY OVER BLOG FULL#

I heard this come up in a recent bio-writing workshop that I hosted with a room full of yoga teacher training students.

#TELLING MY STORY OVER BLOG HOW TO#

3 Common Struggles (And How to Rise Above Them) 1. Somewhere between the mind and heart, these two seemingly opposing forces can come together strongly to complement one another.Īnd a story is born. The other is emotional, feel, intangible, indefinable, shades-of-gray, faith. One is reason, rational, black-and-white, logic. If we oversimplify what the brain and heart represent? The throat lays like a bridge between the brain and the heart: the brain, the thought-processing center of the human experience, where ego, thought and rationality reside the heart, the vital drum that pumps the lifeforce throughout the body, where love, compassion, empathy, community, union and openness reside.

Your reader is hit hard, left feeling depleted, and not moved or motivated.Īs a yogi, it’s the symbolic location of the throat that’s represents the mixing of these two poles, and I like to share this with every client of mine.

#TELLING MY STORY OVER BLOG PROFESSIONAL#

You feel like you need to convey a personal struggle or professional hardship you’ve overcome, but somehow overshare it, or sometimes two or three of them all at once, and without the poise and confidence of reflective narration.You present information and facts coldly, without any emotion, for the sake of appearing “professional,” but it reads more robotic, or arrogant, and isn’t compelling or memorable for readers.You understand that sharing “who you are” and “what you do” is important, but struggle to find the right words to capture either. You feel constrained or restricted self-applying labels and titles, so you don’t, but by the end you only sound non-committal, flighty and unsure.When thought and feel come together, magic happens in story form.īut a big part of my work helping clients make their stories shine ( and what I now get to do with Get Storied’s awesome clients) is untangle the knots in a story where emotion and feeling clash - or, where one is overused, and the other is discarded. Story brings these two poles into harmony.Īs a lifelong writer, 10-time author, communications specialist and Get Storied’s new Writing Coach & Editor, the alchemy of thought and feel represent what I love so dearly about storytelling. And feel, sometimes flimsy or overly indulgent, finds firmness and strength from reason. Mind-matter loses its hardness when mixed with emotion. Rationality and feel meet and mix in a good story, but they also benefit from one another. Storytelling is the alchemy of the mind and the heart.