storytelling

Putting Down Our Fight-or-Flight Armor to Pick Up Healing Mode

When something in our lives, be it physical or emotional, isn’t feeling good, it is human nature to want to protect ourselves against it...

It's Time For a Better Story

For reasons I can’t fully explain, the title of this short story popped into my head on a recent early morning as I was stepping out of...

How a Classic Tale of Children's Fiction Can Help an Anxious World at Any Age

Imagine a doorway that could be opened in countries around the world to spark new and inspiring ways to face anxiety. And then consider...

Asking A Book To Be Curative

Did you know you can ask a book to be curative for you and it will respond? I define anything in my life to be curative when it has...

A Bridge To Reconnect Us With The Natural World

Think about the last time you read a piece of good literary fiction. Can you imagine that story without a single sentence describing...

Your Brain For The Better on Virginia Woolf and Curative Shorts

When we read a Curative Shorts selected short story we are not only lifting our attitudes to antidote discouragement and boost our...

A Spider, A Pig, and Anxiety: How Fiction Can Help Anxious Kids

During the holidays this past year, I felt a blogger, podcaster, "Krista Tippetter" inside of me wanting to escape. I wanted to write,...

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