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Welcome to The Storyteller Project, a collection of life’s fragile moments, threading our lives together and paving a much needed path to mental clarity and healing for all.
This is the Mission of The Storyteller Project.
The vision.
The goal of this project.
The driving force behind this company.
The purpose is to document and highlight the fact that every person has a right to be heard and share their story while ultimately getting to a place of healing and happiness.
With millions of people suffering from mental illness in its many forms each year, we need a better, fair way for people to get the support and help they require while knowing that they are in a safe place.
My vision is to build a mental health ecosystem and story-sharing platform where people can feel accepted and embraced no matter what their story is.
It’s my belief that much of that inner happiness and healing can come from the awareness that we all share a common thread, a lived experience that others can glean from and learn from as we begin to better understand our oneness.
Although these letters and essays here in this collection may not be written directly to you in their original form, I challenge readers and listeners (you) to frame them as though you are the recipient. In order to thread all of our collective fragile moments into one cohesive place so that together we can learn and grow.
Not everything in every letter or essay will be able to be directly applied to your life, but there will be pieces in every writing that can be.
My aim is that this diverse collection of letters can be dissected, fact-checked, emulated, and applied to our lives to find what our own true happiness and path in life may look like. I think that upon reading the collection, you will realize that happiness is something we all are pursuing.
What is true happiness and healing?
That is the exact question this story sharing project will look to answer.
So many of us are tormented by the insane idea that we’re separate, disconnected beings suffering all by our little lonesome selves. I say this from experience.
That’s exactly how I felt when I started Fragile Moments and my podcast “What’s Your Story?”, as if I was the only one in the whole wide world who had lost their mojo and longed to get it back.
Then I started telling my story—and voila! People showed up to tell me they had lost their mojo too—or even more inspiring, that they had once lost theirs and since gotten it back.
How had they gotten their mojo back? By telling their story.
The Power of Storytelling
When we tell our stories and others bear witness, the notion that we are disconnected beings suffering alone dissolves under the weight of evidence that this whole concept is merely an illusion and that millions of others are suffering just like us. They say misery loves company, and it’s true!
The minute you discover that someone else is suffering just like you—or even better, that they’re celebrating their wholeness just like you—that sense of disconnection eases and you start to glimpse the truth—that we are beings of vibrating energy, connected on the energy internet through processes like quantum entanglement, with overlapping consciousness that connects us to the inner pilot light of every being on this planet (and perhaps others.)
The Power of Vulnerability
In order to benefit fully from the healing medicine of telling your story, you must resist holding anything back. You must strip off your masks, be unapologetically you, ditch worrying about what “everybody” is going to think, and let your glorious self shine through.
When you share your story, you are being honest with a part of yourself that previously you've chosen to keep inside.
No matter how much or how little of your story YOU CHOOSE to share with others, that's the only part that's important...being honest with yourself.
If you try to sugarcoat your story, you miss out on the sense of connection with another human being that you can only attain when you’re letting someone see your warts and your big ugly tail. Every time you expose those imperfections—and someone loves you in spite of—even because of—those imperfections, you gain trust.
I believe that if every single one of us were to be brutally honest with ourselves, we all would agree that we are on a continuous search for that “something” in our lives, and that continuous search can be daunting; and exhausting.
Let’s sum it all up…
The Storyteller Project will utilize the power of storytelling as told through ordinary human beings like you and me to build a framework for finding true happiness and healing.
We all are on the search for true happiness and healing.
We will learn from those of past and present through the lens and experiences of people from all walks of life on what true happiness is, and how to find it.
Thank you so much for taking the time to listen and/or read this edition of The Storyteller Project.
In order for this project to succeed and have the greatest reach, I need your help:
Share this project with your friends & family, or someone you think could benefit.
Share this project with the people you would LOVE to learn from and maybe they would be willing to write a story of a fragile moment of their own
Share your own story and be featured in the project
Your ideas and feedback for this project are always welcome!
Please reach out via email: jd@fragilemoments.org
Thanks for trusting me with your email,
JD the Jedi
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