Constructing Reflective Language: An Exploration of Literature Based Therapy

“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” -Stephen King

“Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and malign “Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and malign. But stories can also be used to empower and to humanise.” -Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

Develop/enhance reflective vocabulary Provide individual with new perspective(s) Provide individual with shared experience(s)

“What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again.” -Audre Lorde

“…not a sidestepping of sickness, but a defiant avowal of the reality of pain and respect for the transformed self it leaves behind.” -Rafia Zakaria

Develop/enhance reflective vocabulary Provide individual with new perspective(s) Provide individual with shared experience(s)