How Stories Help - Heal and Grow ?
I didn’t always know this, but I do now—
stories have been quietly holding me, long before I understood why.
I have spent years around learning spaces.
Classrooms. Training rooms. Conversations that look professional on the outside, but carry so much more underneath.
What I have noticed—again and again—is this: people don’t open up to advice.
They open up to stories.
Including me.
When something feels heavy, unclear, or unresolved, logic doesn’t always help.
Explanations don’t land.
Even reassurance feels noisy.
But a story?
A simple, honest story— it creates room.
There have been moments in my life when
I didn’t know what I was feeling, only that something inside me needed attention.
On those days, stories became mirrors.
Not stories that told me what to do—
but stories that said, I see you.
Through stories, I have learned that discomfort doesn’t always need fixing.
Sometimes it needs witnessing.
That growth isn’t a dramatic leap—it’s often a quiet shift.
That healing can begin without resolution.
I’ve seen this with students who find themselves in a story more easily than in a lecture.
With professionals who reflect deeply when they hear a lived experience instead of a framework.
And with myself—when writing or reading allows me to pause and understand my own journey better.
Reading #GETSETGO triggered some of these realisations in me.
Stories slow me down.
They help me listen—first to myself, then to others.
They let emotions surface without demanding answers.
And somewhere along the way, I realised something important:
Stories don’t heal because they are wise.
They heal because they are honest.
They allow us to feel less alone.
They give language to what we haven’t fully named.
They make growth feel possible—without pressure.
I don’t always know where a story will take me when I begin.
But I trust this now:
if a story wants to be told, it’s usually because there’s something there—
something ready to soften, to release, to grow.
That’s how stories have helped me heal.
That’s how they’ve helped me grow.
Quietly.
Gently.
From the inside out.
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