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The Narrative Therapy Workbook: Deconstruct Your Story, Challenge Unhealthy Beliefs, and Reclaim Your Life
Create a new story that will lead the way to change
The stories you tell yourself and the ones others tell you influence the way you see yourself and the world. Using this Narrative Therapy workbook, you’ll learn to examine those stories and rewrite them to reflect the life you want to live.
An empowering tool—Learn about Narrative Therapy, its origins, and how your narratives can shape who you are.
Flip your story—Match your narrative to who and what you want to be with a wide range of strategies, exercises, and practices.
Inspire positive change—Build your new stories through reflective prompts and uplifting affirmations. The pen is in your hand, and you can write the next chapter!
Enhance your sense of self-worth and take control of your own story with Narrative Therapy.
The stories you tell yourself and the ones others tell you influence the way you see yourself and the world. Using this Narrative Therapy workbook, you’ll learn to examine those stories and rewrite them to reflect the life you want to live.
An empowering tool—Learn about Narrative Therapy, its origins, and how your narratives can shape who you are.
Flip your story—Match your narrative to who and what you want to be with a wide range of strategies, exercises, and practices.
Inspire positive change—Build your new stories through reflective prompts and uplifting affirmations. The pen is in your hand, and you can write the next chapter!
Enhance your sense of self-worth and take control of your own story with Narrative Therapy.
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182 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 13, 2022
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October 2, 2022
The Narrative Therapy Workbook by Jnée Hill, LCSW, explores the narrative therapy approach and offers exercises for you to try out on your own.
Narrative therapy involves examining the stories that you’ve been told and that you tell yourself and then re-authoring them in a way that highlights your strengths and abilities. It’s based on the idea that we can’t have objective knowledge of the world; rather, everything we understand about it is filtered through our own experiences. It’s an approach that views individuals as experts of their own stories, and the therapist’s role is to ask questions to help people find their own answers rather than leading them towards particular answers. It focuses on strengths rather than dysfunction and pathologizing.
The process involves several states:
-Externalizing the problem: This stage is about seeing the problem as separate from your identity, and recognizing the role that external forces (e.g. socioeconomic factors) play. This may involve personifying, visualizing, and giving a name to the problem story.
-Deconstructing the problem-saturated story: This includes looking at where our stories came from and the meanings and assumptions related to them, and recognizing that they’re often not truly our own and we’ve learned them from others.
-Re-authoring: This involves reframing and reimagining the narrative and choosing new storylines that are a better fit for you.
-Re-membering: This is about deciding who you want as members in the club that is your life, and what role you want them to play.
The book’s first three chapters provide background information about the narrative therapy approach, and then the workbook aspect kicks in and is organized around the four stages in the therapeutic process. There are various prompt questions and there’s space to fill them out. At the end of each chapter, there are concise bullet point summaries of the key takeaways.
I’d heard of narrative therapy before, but this was the first time I’d read about any of the details of it. It sounds like an interesting approach, and I can see it being particularly useful if there are strong other elements to the problems you’re experiencing, whether that’s internalized negative messages from significant people in your life, bullying, or the effects of racism or other -isms. I like the idea of extricating other people’s stories about ourselves and the world from our own stories; I’m rather feistily independent, so I want to be my own author.
In terms of the book, I think it gives a good look at what narrative therapy is like, and it could be helpful to just do on its own or to work through and get a feel for whether it would be a good approach for you to work with a therapist on.
I received a reviewer copy from the publisher through Netgalley.
Narrative therapy involves examining the stories that you’ve been told and that you tell yourself and then re-authoring them in a way that highlights your strengths and abilities. It’s based on the idea that we can’t have objective knowledge of the world; rather, everything we understand about it is filtered through our own experiences. It’s an approach that views individuals as experts of their own stories, and the therapist’s role is to ask questions to help people find their own answers rather than leading them towards particular answers. It focuses on strengths rather than dysfunction and pathologizing.
The process involves several states:
-Externalizing the problem: This stage is about seeing the problem as separate from your identity, and recognizing the role that external forces (e.g. socioeconomic factors) play. This may involve personifying, visualizing, and giving a name to the problem story.
-Deconstructing the problem-saturated story: This includes looking at where our stories came from and the meanings and assumptions related to them, and recognizing that they’re often not truly our own and we’ve learned them from others.
-Re-authoring: This involves reframing and reimagining the narrative and choosing new storylines that are a better fit for you.
-Re-membering: This is about deciding who you want as members in the club that is your life, and what role you want them to play.
The book’s first three chapters provide background information about the narrative therapy approach, and then the workbook aspect kicks in and is organized around the four stages in the therapeutic process. There are various prompt questions and there’s space to fill them out. At the end of each chapter, there are concise bullet point summaries of the key takeaways.
I’d heard of narrative therapy before, but this was the first time I’d read about any of the details of it. It sounds like an interesting approach, and I can see it being particularly useful if there are strong other elements to the problems you’re experiencing, whether that’s internalized negative messages from significant people in your life, bullying, or the effects of racism or other -isms. I like the idea of extricating other people’s stories about ourselves and the world from our own stories; I’m rather feistily independent, so I want to be my own author.
In terms of the book, I think it gives a good look at what narrative therapy is like, and it could be helpful to just do on its own or to work through and get a feel for whether it would be a good approach for you to work with a therapist on.
I received a reviewer copy from the publisher through Netgalley.
October 7, 2022
I started reading this book and I had stop and buy a hard copy as it was doing great things for me, but not being able to write it down or do it on a separate paper, I just couldn't.
The author explains this approach and it is so easy to understand and do. The best part is being able to be in control and doing it at my own pace. It's so worth it!
The author explains this approach and it is so easy to understand and do. The best part is being able to be in control and doing it at my own pace. It's so worth it!
November 16, 2022
Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the advanced copy of this book.
This workbook outlines what narrative therapy looks like in practice and how readers can use the techniques of this approach to rewrite their own story and acknowledge and merge the different narratives of their life.
The case studies explored client's experiences with narrative techniques as well as offering suggestions throughout to help readers reflect on the way they make meaning. As someone studying counselling and the ways we are conditioned in childhood by the stories we inherit from our caregivers, I really found the case studies informative and clarified my own world view and how I perceive my problems through the lens of old stories. Just recently I had to create a life map and using the life story frame work in this book helped me to reflect.
The overarching message for me was the power of perception. By gathering information about the client the therapist can help their client to imagine how differently they could perceive their story and how telling their own story different would totally alter their current life experiences and how they go about their lives.
I found this a very empowering read and a great tool . I recommend this for anyone learning about therapy or just wanting to learn more about importance of the the stories we tell and the meanings we give to our life events and how this impacts our whole lives.
One analogy I've picked up from my training is how self awareness allows us to look at our lives and our beliefs as a garden, where people had pre-planted thing. With therapy and by growing self awareness we get to decide what we want to stay in the garden and what we want to let go of. This book does just that by exploring our stories and sometimes choosing to tell them differently, we can take back our power and let go of the stories that don't serve us anymore.
This workbook outlines what narrative therapy looks like in practice and how readers can use the techniques of this approach to rewrite their own story and acknowledge and merge the different narratives of their life.
The case studies explored client's experiences with narrative techniques as well as offering suggestions throughout to help readers reflect on the way they make meaning. As someone studying counselling and the ways we are conditioned in childhood by the stories we inherit from our caregivers, I really found the case studies informative and clarified my own world view and how I perceive my problems through the lens of old stories. Just recently I had to create a life map and using the life story frame work in this book helped me to reflect.
The overarching message for me was the power of perception. By gathering information about the client the therapist can help their client to imagine how differently they could perceive their story and how telling their own story different would totally alter their current life experiences and how they go about their lives.
I found this a very empowering read and a great tool . I recommend this for anyone learning about therapy or just wanting to learn more about importance of the the stories we tell and the meanings we give to our life events and how this impacts our whole lives.
One analogy I've picked up from my training is how self awareness allows us to look at our lives and our beliefs as a garden, where people had pre-planted thing. With therapy and by growing self awareness we get to decide what we want to stay in the garden and what we want to let go of. This book does just that by exploring our stories and sometimes choosing to tell them differently, we can take back our power and let go of the stories that don't serve us anymore.
May 10, 2024
When I first picked up this book, I wasn't all that familiar with narrative therapy. But let me tell you, it opened up a whole new world of thinking for me. Now, it's one of my go-to styles of therapy.
What I really appreciated about this book was how easy it was to follow along. The concepts were explained in a clear and straightforward way, which made it easy for me to grasp the principles of narrative therapy. Plus, the exercises were actually enjoyable to complete. They helped me explore new perspectives and gain a deeper understanding of myself and my experiences.
Overall, this book was a game-changer for me. It introduced me to a whole new approach to therapy that I now swear by, and it made the process of self-reflection and growth feel accessible and even enjoyable. If you're curious about narrative therapy or just looking for a fresh perspective, I highly recommend giving this book a read
I received an arc of this book in exchange for an honest review
What I really appreciated about this book was how easy it was to follow along. The concepts were explained in a clear and straightforward way, which made it easy for me to grasp the principles of narrative therapy. Plus, the exercises were actually enjoyable to complete. They helped me explore new perspectives and gain a deeper understanding of myself and my experiences.
Overall, this book was a game-changer for me. It introduced me to a whole new approach to therapy that I now swear by, and it made the process of self-reflection and growth feel accessible and even enjoyable. If you're curious about narrative therapy or just looking for a fresh perspective, I highly recommend giving this book a read
I received an arc of this book in exchange for an honest review
October 14, 2022
I really enjoyed this therapy workbook. It was descriptive and easy to comprehend. I had to actually stop and get a notebook to start doing some of the prompts. I received this book as an ARC through NetGalley in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All of these opinions are my own.
January 25, 2024
Fantastic Workbook
I plan on using this workbook and continue to use it as a resource. As an indie author and lymphoma survivor, I found it very interesting.
I plan on using this workbook and continue to use it as a resource. As an indie author and lymphoma survivor, I found it very interesting.
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