Contemplate these ideas from Brené Brown:
Story stewardship means honoring the sacred nature of story—the ones we share and the ones we hear. . . .
The greatest threats to story stewardship are . . . narrative tap-out and narrative takeover.
Narrative tap-outs can range from subtle disinterest to complete shutdowns.
Narrative takeover is [when] . . . we hijack the story and center ourselves . . . [by] shifting the focus to us, questioning or not believing what someone is sharing because it’s different than our lived experience, or diminishing the importance of an experience because it makes us feel uncomfortable or, worse, complicit . . . . [It’s] about protecting our ego, behavior, or privilege. The less diverse our lived experiences, the more likely we are to find ourselves struggling with narrative takeover or narrative tap-out.
How diverse are your lived experiences? How does that affect your story stewardship?
(My thanks to Brené Brown.)
The Gentle Nudge
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I live an unconventional life and one of mostly isolation. There are no real soul people in this small minded town I live in and have only my brother who shares soul and oneness with me through letters and through his website. He lives in a different county and wants to move house to possibly Holland.
I have only just found him about a year ago and have been corresponding through writing to each other which makes my heart and soul feel nourished.
I have not seen him physically in the same room as each other for decades due to a severe dysfunctional family I lived with as a child, adolescent and leaving our family’s house. Learning how to be an adult.. in an agenda driven peoples. Who worship alcohol and drugs and I broke free from all of that addictive pattern and was helped by me focusing on food for health from recieving a life changing book from my brother.
I began trying out veganism with the handy book that became my bible.
I have come along way since then and so has my brother in our separate lives. And I don’t know even one person in the local community.
I have a Carer. Due to poor debilitating illnesses and she is the only person I see.
My neighbours are egotistical backstabbing fuck wits. Who know only to be the many faced medusas and self conceited talking shit all day and praising each other for how great they are.
Thanks for reading about of my story.
Bests
Ann Siddique 😀🐣🐌🐬🐳🐫🌱
I try to listen attentively, with an open-mind & not be judgemental. Although I admit I might be holding judgemental thoughts in my mind if I am listening to someone whose views are of the conspiracy theory, radical right wing ilk. Fortunately I don’t often find myself exposed to such. It’s an ongoing challenge for me to not get triggered, so I can remain able to feel compassion towards the person & not do harm to myself (or to them) by thinking unkind thoughts about them & what they are saying.