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The two kinds of stories we tell about ourselves
"Our identities and experiences are constantly shifting, and storytelling is how we make sense of it. By taking the disparate pieces of our lives and placing them together into a narrative, we create a unified whole that allows us to understand our lives as coherent — and coherence, psychologists say, is a key source of meaning." Learn something about patterns in which we understand and talk about our personal stories, find out what "redemptive" and "contaminative" narrative means, and more... in this article.
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