007: Fighting Fables: Facing our Stories & Assumptions

The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant · Feb 4, 2015 · 19m

This week on the show, we're talking about stories.

An example: You're on the highway. Someone races up next to you and cuts into your lane. You're surprised and scared for an instant, which leads to frustration — and maybe anger. That person is rude, oblivious, stupid, probably didn't see you because they don't care about others in their lives. … and so on, and so on. This is your story. A story you've made up about a person you have never met, based only on a split second fear reaction.

These are the stories we tell ourselves to help us rationalize our reality. This week on the show…