Write Your Story: The Wisdom of the Middle
Feeling Things with Amy & Kat
Nashville Podcast Network
4.7 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
When you’re in the middle of your story and it appears that no resolution is on the horizon, it’s easy to assume that you must be doing something wrong.
Maybe if you were stronger, wiser, or more "positive" you would be able to find a solution and bring your story to resolution.
But what if the point of the story is not to resolve the story?
What if the unresolved, chaotic, painful middle of a story is exactly where you belong?
In today’s episode I’ll talk about our very human impulse to relieve the pain and pressure of our stories, to find resolution, and I’ll also explore what happens when we allow the middle of the story to be exactly what it is: confusing, unsettling, upsetting and painful.
Are you in the middle of a story?
What would it be like to soften into the middle and let it change you?
Book mentioned: When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
Host: Ally Fallon // @allyfallon // allisonfallon.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Pick up the pieces of your life, |
| 0:07.6 | put them back together with the words you write, |
| 0:10.5 | all the beauty and peace and the magic that you'll start to find. |
| 0:15.1 | When you write your story, |
| 0:17.5 | you've got the words inside, don't you think it's time |
| 0:20.6 | to let them out and write them down, |
| 0:22.9 | uncover what it's all about. |
| 0:26.4 | And write your, write your story, write your story. |
| 0:33.9 | Hi, and welcome back to the Write Your Story podcast. |
| 0:36.3 | I'm Ali Fallon. |
| 0:39.1 | And on today's episode, I want to unpack a topic that I think is really applicable for all of us right now. I want to talk about |
| 0:44.5 | this idea of settling into the middle of a story. And the middle of a story, the way that I think |
| 0:51.3 | about it, is the part of the story where the tension rises. |
| 0:56.8 | The tension is high through the entire middle of the story, but gets higher and higher and |
| 1:01.2 | higher as the hero moves through the story. So the further you get into the story, the higher |
| 1:07.1 | the tension gets. But really, the middle of the story spans from immediately after the |
| 1:13.2 | beginning, this call to adventure, this exciting moment of awakening or something that happens at |
| 1:19.3 | the beginning of a story, Joseph Campbell calls at the call to adventure, or an inciting incident, |
| 1:23.7 | something that happens that just wakes the hero up and changes the way that they see the world. |
| 1:28.0 | So that's the moment that begins the story. |
| 1:30.8 | And then immediately we're in the middle of the story. |
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