Make time to tell your story

Telling stories can help you understand emotions and reduce anxiety.

Storytelling is part of human nature. “So long as there have been people, there have been stories,” Isabella Mead from The Story Museum in Oxford, England, tells The Week Junior. However, stories and storytelling aren’t just about entertainment and enjoyment. Writing and telling stories boosts mental health in all sorts of ways, and can help you understand yourself. What is a story? A story is a description of an event or something that happened to someone and it can be written down or told out loud. Stories are told to entertain or inform people, and they can be true (non-fiction) or made-up (fiction). How can telling stories help improve mental health? Research shows that telling stories can improve mental health by giving the storyteller a way to share emotions and…

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