{"id":2667,"date":"2021-02-05T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewriteplacerighttime.com\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2025-03-10T13:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:59:19","slug":"uncover-your-personal-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewriteplacerighttime.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/05\/uncover-your-personal-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready to Uncover Your Personal Story?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We all have at least one story to tell. Truthfully we have thousands but we don’t often see it that way. There is some sort of taken-for-granted-ness that takes place (for a myriad of reasons) when we look at our past life’s experiences and just see them as these things<\/i> that happened to us regardless if they’re good or bad.<\/p>\n

“No biggie,” we tell ourselves. “That probably happens to everyone.”<\/p>\n

And while there are plenty of circumstances, events, and milestones that are not unique, per se, like getting married (or divorced), or buying a house (or losing one), or graduating college (or choosing an alternative route), it’s the way you experienced it that makes it different. It’s the various details and idiosyncrasies of that ‘universal’ moment that make it interesting. It’s the way you tell it that makes it powerful.<\/p>\n

Let me illustrate. I’ll use myself as an example, it only seems fair. Here’s a short entry into a story about myself that sounds common but is true.<\/p>\n\n\n

This part of the story isn’t unique perhaps. But let’s now weave in some details of that experience that are not necessarily common and also all true.<\/p>\n\n

Cue the Law and Order sound (*duh duh). We have just gone from a known narrative into a swirl of events (tragic death and loss) and circumstances (abusive relationship) topped off with an internal philosophical struggle (questioning God).<\/p>\n\n

Now, not all personal stories have to be tragic or traumatic, but they do all have conflict, rising tension, and that climactic moment where the pressure valve is released and the air seeps out of the balloon providing relief and a new state of being. In a nutshell, this is the story arc<\/a>, and all good stories have them. Otherwise, they are just a flat retelling of chronological events that nobody cares about.<\/p>\n

You have a ton of things that have happened in your life that may seem usual, typical, normal, common to you but have the ability to be given new life, new vitality, and new meaning when you get curious enough about them. Curious enough:<\/p>\n