martha beau

This was the missing piece that finally illuminated my own personal myth, what I felt was the mythology of my life. Yes, I was passionate about helping people unlock the creativity inside of them because of my own experience, but the reason it felt like this passion was the deepest calling of my heart was because my own

Myths, fairy tales, and archetypal stories give us a sense of cohesion because we recognize the patterns, even unconsciously, as bone-deeply familiar. Stories serve to remind us that whatever difficulties we might be experiencing have been encountered many times before. We are not alone; we are connected to an ancestral storehouse of experience,

People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different