Everything Is a Story
Reclaiming the Power of Stories to Heal and Shape Our Lives
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Stories are alive--and shape our personal and collective identities, for better and worse.
In Everything Is a Story, award-winning Indigenous author Kaitlin B. Curtice considers how stories take root in our lives like an acorn becoming an oak tree. Following a story's life cycle, Curtice explores how narratives shape both our inner lives and broader communities. Which stories should we pass on to future generations--and which can we finally let go?
This book invites readers to explore the power of story to liberate or limit, to build compassion or create division. With gentle insight that speaks to people across the spiritual spectrum, Curtice guides us through the art of storytelling as a path toward healing and connection.
With contemplative poetry woven throughout and a foreword by Simran Jeet Singh, Everything Is a Story offers a hope-filled framework for reshaping our lives by reclaiming stories of courage, wholeness, and deep-rooted compassion.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Simran Jeet Singh
As We Begin
Part 1: Seed
1. The Origins of Stories
2. Oak Stories
3. Stories Are Mirrors
4. The Shape of Stories
Part 2: Sprout
5. Gathering Stories
6. Stories of Faith and Religion
7. Returning to Our Body's Stories
8. A Maze of Stories
Part 3: Sapling
9. Stories of Aging and Happiness
10. Stories We Tell About One Another
11. Stories of Myth and Othering
12. Stories of Sports and Exploration
Part 4: Mature Tree
13. Stories Are Labels
14. Stories of Land and Food
15. Stories Told in Public
16. Stories of Belief and Letting Go
Part 5: Dropping Seeds
17. Interfaith, Expansive, Futuristic Stories
18. Merging Stories
19. Stories for Healing
20. The Future of Storytelling
Endorsements
"A beautiful book about the stories that make us who we are and connect us to the earth, the cosmos, and one another."
Eboo Patel, founder and president, Interfaith America; author of We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse Democracy
"As most good communicators know, we best understand our world not through data or evidence or reason but mostly through stories. That's why this is such a potentially powerful book for those who read it!"
Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun
The Author
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© Amy Paulson Photography www.amy-paulson.com Kaitlin B. Curtice
Kaitlin B. Curtice is an award-winning author, poet-storyteller, and public speaker. As an enrolled citizen of the Potawatomi nation, she writes on the intersections of spirituality and identity and how that shifts throughout our lives. She also speaks on...
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