In this episode, I’m sharing my perspective on story ownership and posing the question: who actually interpreted your story the first time it happened? Because I promise you, it wasn't the you sitting here today. It was a younger, less-equipped version of you, making meaning with zero tools and zero perspective. And you've been carrying that meaning around like it's fact ever since. No hate, no shame. It just deserves acknowledgement.

I’m walking you through a reframe you can do on your own story right now, plus why so many women hit a full reckoning in their 40s and 50s (hint: your soul stops letting you ignore her).

So be sure to have something to take notes because you’ll want to take these ideas into your next reflective journaling, aka narrative writing session.

You'll take away:

• Why you're not responsible for how someone receives your story, and why that means you can stop overthinking how you share yours
• How to spot when people-pleasing is really about outsourcing your worthiness to everyone but you
• A simple practice for reframing an old story so it stops feeling like a fact and starts feeling like something you get to rewrite
• Why the hardest part isn't the awakening itself. It's living out who you become after it (so you're not blindsided when it gets messy)
• A first look at my new Rewrite Room — a small Rewritten group starting in August

Mentioned:

• Al-Anon daily readers: Courage to Change and Hope for Today
• The Saint Francis Prayer
• Rewritten (DM on IG me @jessicagraham.storycoach if you want in on the Rewrite Room)

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♥ Connect with me on Instagram: @jessicagraham.storycoach

♥ Start the process with a FREE Name The Narrative Session.

♥ Sign up for the FREE monthly gathering for ambitious women in business, Stories in Action.

♥ Book a call to discuss narrative coaching.

About me: I help female founders and ambitious women rewrite the stories that are keeping them stuck in outdated identities.

This week I'm getting into one of my favorite things to talk about: MANIFESTATION. It used to make me cringe because I thought it was new-age woo-woo talk. Now if you bring it up, I'm like, girl, sit down, let's get into it.

I unpack what manifestation actually means to me now versus how I used to see it (hint: it's not just "ask and hope"), and how narrative work supports the manifestation process. I even walk you through scripting, which is a writing practice I teach my Rewriters to help their nervous system believe a bigger story is possible.

This episode is about reclaiming your agency over what you actually want, and why your nervous system — not your vision board — decides what you're ready to receive.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What manifestation actually means when it's rooted in co-creation with something greater than you AND healing subconcious beliefs
• Why manifestation might be less about calling more in, and more about becoming someone who can recognize, receive, and steward what's already trying to find you
• How the narrative question: Who would I need to be to receive it? works alongside manifestation's question of what am I inviting in
• Why manifesting from a wound (trying to fix, justify, or heal the past) blocks what you're calling in, and what to do instead
• The difference between "going with the flow" and DECIDING, and why deciding is what actually moves things
• An introduction to scripting: A narrative-therapy-informed practice for rehearsing the story your nervous system hasn't learned yet, plus how to try it yourself

If you're ready to start rewriting the stories that are keeping you from receiving what you actually want, Rewritten is the program for you.

Start with a FREE Name the Narrative Session, and let's find the first thread together.

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♥ Connect with me on Instagram: @jessicagraham.storycoach

♥ Start the process with a FREE Name The Narrative Session.

♥ Sign up for the FREE monthly gathering for ambitious women in business, Stories in Action.

♥ Book a call to discuss narrative coaching.

About me: I help female founders and ambitious women rewrite the stories that are keeping them stuck in outdated identities.

Getting really personal this week and tracing a pattern I just recognized in myself: my instinct to go dismissive after a fallout, wipe the whole thing out, and "keep it moving" instead of actually processing it. I unpack where that pattern came from and why it's been costing me the chance to grieve and reconcile what I've lost.

I share two chapters of my story I needed to reconcile — ten years as a teacher I never fully loved, and years working in the service industry. I talk candidly about the shame I carried around both, and how I'm now able to see the actual skills and lessons I carried forward from each — community-building from the classroom, and a deep drive to help women reclaim their worthiness from my service industry years.

This episode is about the parts of my story I'd been dismissing, minimizing, or hiding, and why nothing I've lived was wasted once I was willing to find the thread.

In this episode:

• The dismissive pattern I just uncovered and why it's not the strength I thought it was
• Reconciling 10 years of a teaching career that I didn't love
• My years working in the seedier side of the service industry and the shame I carried around it
• How love and money wounds mirror each other
• What 12-step recovery taught me about surrender and rewriting old beliefs
• Why every experience I've lived — even the ones that feel shameful or unrelated — has a place in my story

If you're ready to start reconciling your stories — especially the ones that have kept you stuck in shame and dismissal — Rewritten is the program for you.

Start with a free Name the Narrative Session, and let's find the first thread together.

♥ Connect with me on Instagram: @jessicagraham.storycoach

♥ Start the process with a FREE Name The Narrative Session.

♥ Sign up for the FREE monthly gathering for ambitious women in business, Stories in Action.

♥ Book a call to discuss narrative coaching.

About me: I help female founders and ambitious women rewrite the stories that are keeping them stuck in outdated identities.