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Radio Headspace

Healing Through Storytelling: Why Writing Your Life Story Matters

Radio Headspace

Headspace Studios

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Sam shares how reflecting on and writing your story can be a deeply healing practice that helps you see how far you’ve come and better understand yourself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Why are businesses like HelloVet choosing Apple products and services?

0:05.1

So we started the business two years ago.

0:07.2

We had a few people who were used to PCs and this was their first foray into Macs.

0:12.5

But it's been super smooth getting everyone onto those devices and everyone seems really, really happy.

0:18.0

Find out how Mac can help you run and grow your business at Apple.com forward slash

0:23.6

HelloVet.

0:27.6

I think the key thing in mental health treatment is choice for people.

0:31.3

And we already have some choices available, medications, some of the psychological and

0:35.2

behavioral therapies.

0:36.6

But I think arts have to be part of that choice as well.

0:39.8

Welcome to When Science Finds Away, a podcast about the science changing the world.

0:47.7

When Science Finds Away.

0:49.8

Listen to season three, wherever you get your podcasts.

1:09.2

Okay. to Season 3 wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Sam. Welcome to Radio Headspace. If you've listened to my past episodes, you know that I love research, especially about the human brain. And I was recently pouring over some research that attested to the importance of our personal narrative

1:28.3

as a measure of our mental health. Now, our personal narrative reflects how we tell the story

1:34.6

of our lives, the meaningful moments and big transitions that we've struggled with and grown

1:41.0

from. When our personal narrative is cohesive, reflects that we've thought deeply

1:46.9

about our life experiences and have made sense of it all. When our narrative is incohesive,

1:53.2

it reflects our blind spots, unexplored and unprocessed moments and memories in our lives

1:59.1

that may feel too daunting to confront.

2:01.6

The fact that a cohesive narrative reflects mental health makes total sense.

2:06.6

It's a reflection of how much time and energy we've devoted to knowing and understanding ourselves,

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