The Dr. Pat Show - Talk Radio to Thrive By!

We Carry the Light with Host Dr. Susan Allison-Love in Every Stitch with Lee Gant.   On today's show, Lee Gant shares how knitting has saved someone from a life of drug addiction, has helped someone finally leave her house, and how knitting has helped a person transition through the stages of being blind. Some of the stories in Lee's book,Love in Every Stitch, will seem like miracles, and perhaps they are. Lee will share that knitting not only fosters self esteem, hope and healing, but it has the power to save lives. It is what saved Lee's life when she was at her lowest point. Knitting has transformed millions of lives, one stitch at a time.

Remapping Your Mind: The Neuroscience of Self-Transformation through Story - Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona & Barbara Mainguy.We are born into a world of stories that quickly shapes our behavior and development without our conscious awareness. By retelling our personal, family, and cultural narratives we can transform the patterns of our own lives as well as the patterns that shape our communities and the larger social worlds in which we interact.  They detail mind-mapping and narrative therapy techniques that use story to change behavior patterns in ourselves, relationships, communities, explore studies that reveal how memory works through story, how the brain recalls things in narrative rather than lists, and how our stories modify our physiology and facilitate health or disease. Drawing on their decades of experience in narrative therapy, the authors examine the art of helping people to change their story, providing brain-mapping practices to discover your inner storyteller and test if the stories you are living are functional or dysfunctional, healing or destructive.