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Sandra Marinella’s The Story You Need to Tell is a collection of illuminating stories that show us the power of writing to transform our lives.

Ellen BassPoet and Best-Selling Author of The Courage to Heal

Sandra Marinella has written a wonderful guide for all those struggling to make sense of  the story of their lives!  It can serve as the perfect prescription for real healing.

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The Story You Need to Tell is a beautifully written book with stories that inspire the readers to make their way through trauma, illness, loss, and hardship.

Christina Baldwin Author of Storycatcher, Life’s Companion, One to One

Sandra Marinella brings keen research skills, a brilliant storytelling voice and a distinguished teaching career to this cohesive guide for writing the unspeakable.

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A Creative Growth Cluster

©Sandra Marinella

In recent years I have created and experimented with “creative growth clusters.”  You create a positive cluster around a word you would like to integrate more fully into your life. Try this:

  • Choose one of these words:
    • Possibility
    • Learning
    • A Strength
  • Place it in the center of your paper.
  • Circle it. Now branch out using lines and new bubbles to create the images or memoires that come.
  • Be free and open to explore what comes!

Write a story that surfaces from one of more the bubbles in your cluster. Let the story happen. Simply work to tell the story with your memories, thoughts, and feelings. Write until it feels complete.

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Thank you for joining me here. May you find your words and the light that summer brings in the coming days.

With love and gratitudes,

Sandra

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