Hi everybody and welcome back to the show. I am really excited about today's podcast because

I'm starting something new. I'm going to call it story time and it's something I felt

I've wanted to add to this podcast for a long time and I was speaking at one of my friends' events

and told

some of the stories that I've written there and people loved it. So I thought you may love it as well.

So every so often on a coach's corner, I'm going to share an original story I've written,

a story created specifically for you to teach, to inspire, to soothe, and to help you remember

who you really are underneath the roles, responsibilities, patterns, and expectations

that you place on yourself and that others place on you. Here's why I love stories. Stories

touch a part of us that logic can't reach. We can hear advice or tools or steps

a hundred million times, but a single story can bypass our defenses, slip past that inner critic,

and land directly in the part of our brain that feels and imagines and remembers and awakens truth.

So stories speak right to the right hemisphere of the brain,

the place where metaphor and where emotion and intuition and deep wisdom live. It's a part of the

brain that also holds our earliest memories, our identity, all the compensatory strategies we form

to survive. And you know, we work so much on the show with our past and our

inner child. And I feel like adding the story element is just going to help that part of you even

more. Because a well-told story doesn't just educate us. It shifts us. It really creates that

bridge between the conscious and subconscious mind.

It helps us see ourselves with compassion. And it really opens a door to change that

sometimes information and awareness can't alone. So humans have been learning through stories

since the beginning of time, through myths,

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