We can give ourselves a new experience, creating new options, just by working deeply with imagination. To do this, select a quality that was not supported, and then imagine someone important to you recognizing this quality in you and really celebrating it. Imagine this person saying that it is one of the things he or she likes most about you. Notic

Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power. —Alice

When we reach an impasse, we may experience feelings of hopelessness. The ability to stay out of the story, zoom back, and see new pathways into and around a challenge will be of boundless use. If we allow this principle to work on us as we work on it, our imagination frees us from the web of personal and cultural stories engulfing us. Art has the