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Asked&Answered: Storytelling and Health

MJ Author
06/03/2021 Added
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Research by UNL communication professor Jody Koenig Kellas suggests sharing stories lead to improved quality of life.

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  • [00:00:00.167](upbeat music)
  • [00:00:03.610]One of the primary functions of storytelling
  • [00:00:06.230]is coping and sense making, so when life
  • [00:00:09.200]is really messy and chaotic,
  • [00:00:11.010]we map narrative features onto that messiness
  • [00:00:15.700]in order to help make it coherent and make sense.
  • [00:00:19.120]So one of the things that we can do
  • [00:00:20.640]when we're in the midst of difficulty,
  • [00:00:22.030]like serious illness, is narrate our experience,
  • [00:00:25.470]both to connect with other people,
  • [00:00:26.980]to cope, to seek social support.
  • [00:00:29.408](upbeat music)
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