How to Write a New Life for Yourself: Narrative therapy and the writing solution (The E-Cent Narrative Therapy)

This book emphasizes the importance of stories in shaping human life and offers exercises to help individuals become better authors of their own narratives.

It contains 20 exercises to help individuals to become highly effective authors of their own future lives; and to clean up an past problems.

• Understanding the Role of Stories: Humans navigate life through stories, which are crucial for managing our lives effectively. If our stories are inaccurate, it affects our ability to manage our lives well.

• Benefits of Journaling: Journal writing enhances mental health, cognitive functions, personal growth, and social connections, leading to a more reflective and fulfilled life.

• Therapeutic Writing: Writing therapy, influenced by social narratives and personal variations, can change deep-seated narratives and identity. It is effective in managing thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, reducing stress, and achieving personal goals.

Jim Byrne has a doctoral degree in counselling and a master's degree in education; plus a diploma in counselling psychology and psychotherapy, and a number of counselling certificates and accreditations. He has been involved in counselling psychology and psychotherapy (private practice) for almost twenty years; and he's written extensively on philosophy of counselling psychology. Furthermore, he has used writing therapy to heal his own life, including writing a fictionalized autobiography of the first forty years of his life. He is the creator of Emotive-Cognitive Embodied Narrative Therapy (E-CENT), which emphasizes the interactionism of body-brain-mind-environment as a whole system; plus the idea that human beings are storytellers in a sea of stories, and that we can transform our lives by re-authoring the story that drives our current life.