Stories are a powerful and ancient medicine. We have been transmitting and receiving stories since the begining of time for a multitude of healing reasons: to celebrate and memorialize great success, to transmute pain, to heal, to laugh, to show care and support for others. Holding another’s stories is a radical act of love and kindness, a radical act of care in a world that leaves the grieving, displaced, and oppressed behind. Stories require community and build community. By coming into communion with another’s story, we form an indelible bond with them.
I will also share my history with stories as medicine, which began with stories, books, reading, and then music, lyrics, and poetry. Later, I embraced languages as both a tool for communication and storytelling, and also a story in and of themselves that reflect the people who speak them and pass them along.
Thank you for joining me today on this discussion about stories as medicine. I’d love to hear what your experience with stories and storytelling is. Do you dance, sing, sign, write, or serve as the keeper of your family’s history? What do stories mean to you?
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Music in this podcast is the track Glacier by the artist SalmonLikeTheFish on the album Music for the Sleepy Traveler. It is used under creative commons license CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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