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Narrative Healing

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Narrative Healing: Awaken the Power of Your Story

Uncover the healing power of your story, express your authentic voice, and find connection with this somatic guide to writing and creativity.

Narrative Healing: Awaken the Power of Your Story by Lisa Weinert

Hachette / Balance · July 18, 2023

Lisa Weinert’s work is based on the premise that we hold our stories in our bodies. The extent that we learn how to release them affects how we perceive and approach our lives.

Combining somatic practices, creative prompts, and mindfulness exercises, the book guides you through six steps of healing through storytelling: awaken, listen, express, inspire, connect, and grow. It is written for writers and non-writers alike.

Selected praise

  • Lisa Weinert gives us a timely reminder that a writer is a body and not just an intellect. Somatic practices and writing prompts combine to resource the nervous system and release hidden stories. Whether you want to write your way to healing or open yourself to deeper and more authentic writing, this book is a must-read.

    Resmaa Menakem

    New York Times bestselling author of My Grandmother’s Hands

  • This groundbreaking program shifts our perspective on healing and enables us to progress toward a path of complete well-being and show up as our best selves.

    Jamia Wilson

    Bestselling author of Young, Gifted and Black

  • Lisa Weinert’s generous spirit as a truth-seeker shines through the pages of Narrative Healing. This book is an invitation to grow and awaken your creative voice.

    Jenny Jackson

    New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street

  • Full of exercises accessible to any person with a body and a mind, Lisa Weinert's Narrative Healing is sure to help many people on their path to wellness.

    Nellie Hermann

    Creative Director at the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University

Read it, then practice it.

The book is a companion. The Salon is where the book becomes a weekly practice.