Happiness Hacks

In the self-help/personal development world, the idea of stories—and the stories we tell ourselves—is seen as a negative thing.  The message is: if we were better people, then we would know all of our “stories”—and if we are honest about them, they wouldn’t get in our way and hold us back from living our full potential.  Instead, we could change our limiting beliefs by simply “changing the story.”  That phrase drives me crazy. As if it’s that easy to change your story!  And while the self-help world might portray stories as a challenge to overcome or as an opportunity to rewrite, I have always seen it differently: stories are what make us the amazing, unique humans that we are.  Today, I’m so excited to introduce Hillary Rea to you. She is a storyteller by trade and has a refreshingly different take on the stories that we tell ourselves, the stories we tell about ourselves to others, and the stories that others tell about us.  Hillary is the founder of Tell Me A Story, a full-service communication consulting