Name: How changing your story can change your life
Uploaded: 2019-11-01T15:00:48Z
Duration: 16 min 16 s
Description: Stories help you make sense of your life -- but when these narratives are incomplete or misleading, they can keep you stuck instead of providing clarity. In an actionable talk, psychotherapist and advice columnist Lori Gottlieb shows how to break free from the stories you've been telling yourself by becoming your own editor and rewriting your narrative from a different point of view.

Stories help you make sense of your life -- but when these narratives are incomplete or misleading, they can keep you stuck instead of providing clarity. In an actionable talk, psychotherapist and advice columnist Lori Gottlieb shows how to break free from the stories you've been telling yourself by becoming your own editor and rewriting your narrative from a different point of view.

How changing your story can change your life

The way people tell their own stories can trap them, not clarify things. Through reading thousands of advice letters, one therapist found that everyone is an unreliable narrator of their own life, often missing the bigger picture. When a woman felt stuck after discovering her husband’s late-night calls, the talk revealed how editing one’s narrative can open new paths. Changing perspective—like rewriting a story from another character’s viewpoint—can spark profound personal change.