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Your Life as Story by Tristine Rainer — WisdomDeck honest review

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Your Life as Story

by Tristine Rainer

Rainer on autobiographical narrative: finding the story shape in a life, the mythic structure, the ethics. Thorough and humane.

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you want to find the shape in your life story.

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Three things you will actually use

Life has shapes.
Find the turning points.
Tell the truth kindly.

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Finding the story in a life.

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