Summary of Fix your Narrative, Heal Yourself

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This video discusses the concept of narrative and how it can be used to help heal oneself. It explains that narrative therapy is a form of psychotherapy that helps patients identify and change their self-stories. The goal is to create a new, more positive narrative that is helpful and empowering.

• 00:00:00 This video discusses the concept of narrative, and how it can be broken down into self-states and failures. It also discusses narrative psychology and narrative therapy, which are forms of psychotherapy aimed at fixing broken narratives.
• 00:05:00 In narrative therapy, the therapist helps the patient to identify values, skills, and knowledge that are important to them and to exercise these skills in order to confront problems and live their values. The goal is to help the patient develop a self-narrative that is helpful and compatible with the narratives other people tell about them, and to rewrite or re-offer their story in order to create unique outcomes. Narcissism is often accompanied by a grandiosity defense, which means that the person believes that they are un-solvable and that no one can help them. Narrative therapy helps the patient to identify this defense and to revise their story so that it doesn't communicate these negative messages.
• 00:10:00 In "Fix your Narrative, Heal Yourself," author Michael White shares the approach of narrative therapy, which seeks to help patients separate their self-narratives from problems and issues in life. The therapist helps the patient to name the problem, get a handle on it, and end the relationship with it. This leads to a stronger, more positive outlook on life.
• 00:15:00 The "Fix your Narrative, Heal Yourself" video discusses the idea of using kaleidoscopic nature to your advantage, as well as the idea of developing a new self-story that is not necessarily self-critical or conforms to social mores. The video also discusses the practice of remembering the therapy identifies identities that are somehow sublimated identities that are socially conformant or reflect some social accomplishment. This process helps to disengage identities that do not support the person's preferred story about themselves. The video also discusses the concept of maps and how narrative therapy is very big on them. The video speaks to the idea of the Outside Outsider Weaknesses Map, which is a narrative therapy map that helps to identify conflicts, dissonances, and internal problems. This map is used to help the therapist and the patient communicate and create a story together.
• 00:20:00 Narrative therapy helps patients identify and change their self-stories, which can help them feel less hopeless and more empowered in life.
• 00:25:00 This video discusses the importance of having a positive narrative, and how it can help improve self-efficacy and help you solve problems. It explains that narrative therapy is similar to cold-therapy in that it involves rewriting one's self-narrative.