i have been thinking throughout the day about your words, Perna. i think your use of stories in your life spoke to me, because I love to create fiction, poetry and other creative things (if i could do anything, i'd become a full time writer of fiction and poetry)...so your words spoke to me.

the main hesitation in using "stories" in therapy is i have been doing it all along and i fear that it keeps me out of the real world. i have been disconnected from the "real" world so much over the past 20+ years.