Annie Brewster, M.D.

Doctor, Patient, Teacher, Storyteller, Facilitor


Selected Media


Dr. Annie Brewster: Stories for Health

Monadnock Summer Lyceum
July 20, 2025

The Opioid Project: Recovery through Art

Yes! Weekly
June 25, 2025

Annie Brewster: The Healing Power of Storytelling

Leading Organizations that Matter Podcast
January 14, 2025

Constructing and Reconstructing the Stories of Our Lives

MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation
January 14, 2025

I Rebuilt My Self-Esteem by Changing the Story of Who I Am

Psyche
March 14, 2024

Healing 2.0: Change Your Story, Change Your Life

The Hidden Brain Podcast, NPR
October 30, 2023

The Unfixed Mind: Navigating Mental Illness Today
Four-Part Series

Health Story Collaborative & Unfixed Media
October 2023

The Healing Power of Storytelling: An Interview with Annie Brewster

Harvard Medicine Magazine
February 2023

Storytelling For Your Health

Big Questions with Cal Fussman Podcast
August 23, 2022

How ‘The Healing power of Storytelling’ can change patients’ lives

Hear and Now, WBUR
June 1, 2022

Annie Brewster, Founder and Executive Director of Health Story Collaborative

The Health Design Podcast
March 29, 2022

The Opioid Epidemic Has Claimed 500,000 Lives. These Stories Need to Be Heard

Commonhealth, WBUR
March 22, 2022

Covid’s wrath has left tales of woe: 2 years in, owning those stories is helping some heal

USA Today
March 11, 2022

Healing Power of Storytelling

Grief is a Sneaky Bitch Podcast with Lisa Keefauver
March 2, 2022

What’s in a Story, with Annie Brewster

Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary
February 21, 2022

The Healing Power of Storytelling with Annie Brewster, M.D.

Moments with Marianne with Marianne Pestana
February 17, 2022

The Healing Power of Storytelling: Using Personal Narrative to Navigate Illness, Trauma, and Loss

Medical Mondays with John Schumann, Public Radio Tulsa
February 7, 2022

The Healing Power of Storytelling with Annie Brewster

Magical Mystery Tour Radio with Tonio Epstein
February 4, 2022

The Healing Power of Storytelling: Using Personal Narrative to Navigate Illness, Trauma, and Loss

North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California
February 1, 2022

The Healing Power of Storytelling with Annie Brewster

60 Mindful Minutes Podcast with Kristen Manieri
January 17, 2022

Stories Connect Us

Harvard Health Publishing
July 21, 2021

Navigating a Chronic Illness During the Holidays

Harvard Health Publishing
December 14, 2021

Tough Times, Take Charge of Your Own Story

CaringBridge Uplift Blog
April 16, 2020

Everyone Has a Story

Minnesota Medicine Magazine
May/June, 2019

Traveling Art Project Honors Those Lost to Opioid Crisis

WGBH
April 17, 2019

The Opioid Project: Changing Perceptions through Art and Storytelling

University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
March 20, 2019

Telling the Story of Addiction

MGB/McLean Newsletter
January 29, 2019

Listening to Patients: Living with Terminal Cancer

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
January 16, 2019.

Fighting the Opioid Crisis, One Story at a Time. Boston Globe

Boston Globe
August 9, 2018

Listen In On A Doctor/Patient Heart-To-Heart

CaringBridge
May 23, 2018

What Two Driven Harvard Doctors Have Learned From Their Autoimmune Diseases

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
February 1, 2018

“It’s about love”: Battling a brain tumor, a man finds resilience through storytelling

STAT News, The Boston Globe
November 20, 2017

7 Questions to ask when you’re given a prescription for an opioid

Harvard Women’s Health Watch
June 1, 2017

Why Share Your Story? During Illness, Storytelling Can Help Healing

CaringBridge Uplift Blog
March 28, 2017

Listening To Patients: Slowly Recovering From Sexual Abuse By A Teacher

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
December 28, 2016

The Story Prescription

Proto Magazine Podcast
November 10, 2016

Letting People into Your Health Journey

CaringBridge Uplift Blog
August 25, 2016

How To Support A Family Member With M.S.

MS Focus Magazine: Multiple Sclerosis Foundation: Vol. 18, Issue 3
Summer 2016

When A Mother Decides to Stop Cancer Treatment And Face Death

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
August  5, 2016.

Life After Diagnosis: How Illness Changed My Identity

CaringBridge Uplift Blog
July 12, 2016

Art, Stories That Honor Those Who Died by Drug Overdose—and Help Survivors, Too

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
June 30, 2016

Getting Off Psych Meds Was “The Hardest Thing” She’d Ever Done

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
March 16, 2016

Health Boost: Story-sharing Kiosk for Hospital Patients Coping with Illness Set to Launch

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
October 29, 2015

The Face of Opioid Addiction: Vinnie, a ‘Regular’ Guy from Revere

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
September 4, 2015

The Checkup: Power to the Patient

Slate
May 11, 2015

Traumatic Turning Point: How the Marathon Bombing Shifted One Woman’s Depression

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
April 20, 2015

How Art Can Re-Order a Harsh, ‘Deformed’ Childhood

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
January 16, 2015

Boundary Crossing: When Doctors and Patients Get Personal for Better Health

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
January 1, 2015

Mass General Doctor Learns to Accept Her Own Changing Brain

Radio Boston, WBUR
September 15, 2014

Harnessing the Healing Power of Stories

TEDx Fenway
October, 2014

From Crushing Infertility to Letting Go of ‘How It Should Be’

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
August 6, 2014

Life Lessons From an Ultra Rare, Potentially Fatal Disease

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
April 4, 2014

Storytelling for Health: Doctor Promotes Intimate Patient Narratives

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
March 11, 2014

Talking Back to Your Doctor

Slate
September 30, 2013

Extreme Mothering: When a Child Has a Relentless Disease

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
November 8, 2013

One Teenager’s Female-to-Male Story: Going through Puberty Twice

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
July 12, 2013

A Mother and Son Learn to Live with Psychosis

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
February 22, 2013

A Gradual, Excruciating Descent into Domestic Violence

Radio Boston, WBUR
October 16, 2012

A Gradual, Excruciating Descent into Domestic Violence

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
October 12, 2012

Not following the Doctor’s Order

Radio Boston, WBUR
September, 2012

Patient Angst: When You Just Have to Say ‘No’ to the Doctor

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR, featured on NPR
August 31, 2012

Commentary: How I Talk about Sex with My Kids

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
May 22, 2012

When Doctors Listen

Radio Boston, WBUR
March 13, 2012

For Mental Health Boost: Take Charge of Your Personal Story

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR, featured on NPR
January 13, 2012

From Spring Break to Quadriplegia, and Building a New Life

CommonHealth Blog, WBUR, featured on NPR
March, 2012

Harvard Wife, Mother and Heroin Addict: A Survivor’s Story

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
October, 2011

A Young Woman Confronts Her Fiance’s Suicide

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
April, 2011

Storytelling as Patient Therapy

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
March 11, 2011

When an Eating Disorder Takes Over a Teenager’s Life

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
February, 2011

Pancreatic Cancer Kills

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
August 26, 2010

Patient Rights and Responsibilities

MS Focus Magazine: Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, Vol. 12. Issue 3
Summer 2010.

A Mother Savors Life While Battling Cancer

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
April 2010

Reality Check: Doctors Can’t Fix Everything

 Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
November 16, 2009

When Doctor’s Confide in Patients

The New York Times Well Blog
October 22, 2009

Boundary Issues: A Doctor with MS Confides in her Patient

Commonhealth Blog, WBUR
October 9, 2009

The Crisis of Primary Care Physicians

Boston Globe
May 29, 2008