I took a storytelling class recently and the book we used as a text, "Storytelling and the art of Imagination" (Nancy Mellon) has some sound advice for using st

I took a storytelling class recently and the book we used as a text, "Storytelling and the art of Imagination" (Nancy Mellon) has some sound advice for using stories for healing purposes. I find it rather powerful as a way of extending journaling and taking it out of the nihlistic-ruminating mode that feeds anxious-depressed cycles - just taking control of an ordinary life story and adding a few fairy tale elements does a lot.