This is module 2 of the “Accepting Your Anger” class. Here we look at that overly popular term “narrative.” Here, narratives are not ways of determining truth so much as frameworks that give us our lived experiences. They are the structure through which we identify what values are defined us and how we determine what they look like in practice.
If you’ve ever wondered why some things upset you more than others and/or why you get angry at certain times and not at others, the boundaries provided by your stories/narratives are the answer. If you’ve wondered why some people, including yourself, can be “hypocrites,” where caring about one thing seems to mean not caring about another, narratives are what allows this to happen.
We are not so much finding truths in our lives, as starting from what we believe and seeking consistency in applying those beliefs. If that means we ignore some things, or emphasize other things, then so be it.
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