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Cheryl Harding and Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett—our two keynote speakers for this year's annual HSC event—were featured in a Boston Globe article calling for trust, humanity, and connection between healthcare providers and their patients. Read more about Cheryl's and Dr. Barnett's experiences on both sides of the healthcare relationship (paywall).
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Dr. Annie Brewster shares her stories of awe and wonder, describing how these experiences healed her throughout her professional and personal life.
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Host Rey Spadoni interviews Annie Brewster for the podcast Leading Organizations that Matter. They discuss how stories empower, inspire, and heal, as well as issues related to physician burnout and the lack of integration within our current health care system.
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HSC's Jonathan Adler was quoted in the New York Times for his expert recommendation on memoirs that focus on mental health and psychology. He recommended "An Unquiet Mind" by Kay Redfield Jamison and "The Noonday Demon" by Andrew Solomon, among others, including Annie Brewster's own "The Healing Power of Storytelling"
"The way the narrator makes meaning offers us an invitation to think about the meaning that we’ve made in our lives. It’s an invitation to realize that you are interpreting your story and that you have choices about how you want to do that," Jonathan said.
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HSC’s Jonathan Adler and Annie Brewster were featured in an article for Psyche, a digital magazine by Aeon that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is rising. More than 3 million Americans struggle with chronic fatigue syndrome, according to the CDC. The HSC series on chronic illness, "Making the Invisible Visible,” has helped people dig deep to shape very personal stories and share truths about illness through audio, video, and art.
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We all tell stories about ourselves, often without realizing we’re doing so. How we frame those stories can profoundly shape our lives. In the kickoff episode to our monthlong series on healing, psychologist Jonathan Adler shares how to tell our stories in ways that enhance our wellbeing.
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Cal has spent his life writing stories and telling them on stage. Big Questions started after he told stories for three straight hours on Tim Ferriss’s podcast. But Cal finds a new power in storytelling through his discussion with Annie Brewster. She shares her own story of healing after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis roughly twenty years ago and the work she has done at Health Story Collaborative helping others understand their health problems through storytelling. This conversation gives Cal the seed of an idea . . . and may help you, too. Listen to the podcast episode here.
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Have you ever devoured a book in a day? Well that’s exactly what I did with The Healing Power of Storytelling.
In this episode, Dr. Annie Brewster explores the grief involved in a diagnosis, the lessons she learned about the healing power of narratives, the elements of storytelling that can help bring improved outcomes to our physical, psychological and emotional well-being and so much more.
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Annie Brewster talks with Matthew Zachary on Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary.
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In this podcast Dr. Annie Brewster shares her personal health journey as well as the importance of crafting your own personal narrative and integrating it into your evolving identity.
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When Harvard-trained physician Dr. Annie Brewster was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2001, she realized firsthand that the medical system was failing her in one critical way: she didn’t feel seen or heard. Her doctors weren’t listening. This experience launched her onto a path to discover how exploring and sharing her healing journey, and becoming the author of her own story, taught her to integrate her traumatic health event into her new and evolving identity. Annie now uses applied storytelling techniques to help others strengthen connections and cultivate resilience to move forward amid uncertainty and fear.
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Dr. Annie Brewster started recording patient narratives in 2010 and founded Health Story Collaborative in 2013. These activities -- both rooted in the idea that we, as patients as well as doctors, can write down our own stories of illness, diagnosis, pain, and healing in order to start processing (and even start confronting) what might come next in our lives -- have led her to co-write an important new book. That book is "The Healing Power of Storytelling: Using Personal Narrative to Navigate Illness, Trauma, and Loss." As was noted by Dr. Danielle Ofri (author of "What Doctors Feel"): "Brewster's new book is revelatory. With the authority that comes from being a patient and a doctor simultaneously, Brewster is able to excavate the deep power of storytelling. The stories and journeys she shares -- her own and others' -- are riveting."