AND BEYOND EMOTIONS, we exist as creatures embedded in the arc of a story, inseparable from a narrative about our past, present, and future.
We are always weaving new experiences and expectations into this story of our life, always rewriting the tale of where we’ve come from, the traumas and victories that have shaped us, where we belong in our social circles, where we belong in the world.
THIS LIFE STORY leads into an ever-updating description of who we are in the present moment, and provides the soil from which rise our values, our talents, our loyalties, the roles we see ourselves playing in the dramas of work and social life, our expectations of how we should be treated. And stretching out before us are our imagined selves of the future, the people we hope to be and the worst nightmares of what we might become.
