Naming the Real

Finding Agency: Cultivating Our Power to Choose (Storytelling Part III: A Conversation with Daphne Larkin and Christy Bauman)

May 24, 2024

This conversation with Daphne Larkin and Dr. Christy Bauman is an exploration of the importance of knowing and telling our hard stories. Through real life-examples, we survey how telling stories creates greater flexibility in our perspective, resilience in our attitudes, and kindness in how we hold our own narratives,...

A NtR Short: Owning the Morning: Writing Your Grounding Story

May 17, 2024

In this Short, we explore a simple two-step practice for seizing the day rather than letting the day seize you. The practice is straightforward: a commitment to spend a few moments in a slow, unhurried posture combined with a consistent engagement of your “grounding story.” In this episode, we explain what a...

A NtR Short: “Discharging a Loyal Soldier”: How to Release Parts of Us That Once Kept Us Safe…and Now Keep Us Stuck

May 10, 2024

In this Naming the Real Short—a bonus episode in our Storytelling Series—we explore the idea of “discharging a loyal soldier,” which is releasing a belief/part of us that kept us safe but now keeps us stuck. By thanking the part, releasing the part, and re-assigning the part to a new role, we can transcend...

You’re Not Crazy for Talking to Yourself: How to Dialogue with All Your Parts (Storytelling Part II)

May 3, 2024

The person that we are includes many parts, organized around our true Self. But many times we feel stuck, because we believe our most frustrated or seemingly dysfunctional part is our actual identity, or because we don’t how to integrate our parts into a greater whole. In this episode, we consider the reality that...