Your life is a story, with a beginning, middle and end. Your life is full of significant characters - your parents, siblings, children, other family members, friends, lovers, coworkers, teachers, counselors. There are scenes that you live out and roles that you play; chapters unfolding. It is vital to intimately know your story and to share your story with others; To understand how key characters and scenes in your life have shaped you and contribute to who you are today. It is also important to understand your role in your story. Reflecting on your story and sharing your story helps you see important themes you continue to play out today in your relationships with yourself and others. Telling our story in new ways can lead to greater understanding, a time to grieve, a time to heal, new freedom. We don't know how our story will end but we are not helpless and we are not hopeless. We take part in creating our futures, but first we must know what we want. There are scenes in our story to be grieved, to be celebrated, to be told to ourself and to others. Through the counseling process, we tell our story.