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The power of her art as part of her anti-anorexia
Seeding.
David generously hosted her art and prose on his website,
www.narrativeappaoraches.com. This amplified her voice, spread her stories, and
strengthened her resolve to know that her struggle reached thousands of others
who might be uplifted by them.
Stories are like seeds.
I need to trust to let some parts of my story go, to sow them freely like seeds, so
they can settle in the fertile ground of other people’s life stories.
There, the seeds can germinate and grow into healthy plants, feeding on the
compost of anorexia.
This is self-nourishment, livening up, preparing for life and the next season.
New life sprouts forth in the form of new living segments of myself and the
universe; we are all one, all part of one another, part of the universe.
My seed-stories can fly and plant seeds in the life stories of others.
Date: Fri, May 4, 2001, 1:02 AM
Dear David,
Joanna feels that the most powerful documents were the ones she generated on
her life victories, her bill of rights, and her poetry. She says these documents
An Apprenticeship in Extremis
Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy, December 2025 Release, p. 5-44.
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