In preparation for an upcoming post I wanted to share a bit of my story journey with you. In my pursuit to teach my first born son, Thing One, through his insatiable desire for stories I stumbled across a book called "Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviors" by Susan Perrow published by Hawthorn Press, Gloucestershire . This book was so affirming to me. It encouraged me to make up stories to tell my boys that would address specific problems I was having with them. Or even to make up stories to address problems we were having in our relationships with each other. After a while this developed into making up stories to hopefully preempt problems, like the story I'm going to share with you in my next post. A Healing Story is just that, a story to heal. In some cases Healing Stories can work where medicine can't. They aren't for healing broken arms or burns of course. They are for wounds of the heart, soul and mind. At the very least Hea...