From: Dr Eric Miller

Chennai, 98403 94282

eric@storytellinginstitute.org

Date: July 2022

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Examples of Healing Stories --

 

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1

 

"The Moon Rabbit Story"

 

The client's life experience

As a child, the client had lost her mother.  This client also recalled that a pet rabbit of hers had passed away around the same time she had lost her mother, and that she had buried the rabbit all by herself.

 

The client's healing story

A ship carrying some senior women came to where a young woman was living near a beach.  The senior women came ashore and showed to the young woman a ring with the rabbit's image on it.  This image also appeared on the moon.  The senior women explained that they were members of a healing tribe, and they had come to invite the young woman character to come with them and be their student.

 

Eric's interpretation of the healing story

In this story, the losses of the client's mother and pet rabbit are transformed and compensated for in order to give the client a sense of social and cosmic belonging.

 

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2

 

"The Domesticated Cat in the Forest Story"

 

One client was a very shy young girl.  In her Healing Story, a small domesticated cat went wondering in a forest.  Here the cat met a lion, and was encouraged by the lion to be more expressive and self-assertive.  The small cat took this advice and encouragement to heart -- and so did the client.

 

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3

 

Title only:

 

"The Girl Who Didi Not Believe in Herself (and How She Came to Believe in Herself)."

 

 

 

 

 

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