Jana VI Haggard

Scary Stories to Tell in the Light Jana VI Haggard

Scary Stories to Tell in the Light demonstrates how narrative can be used to transform complex trauma into a fulfilling life. Using her own story as a survivor of childhood abuse, sexual assault, mental illness, addiction, and witness to the murder of her fiancé as a template showing how the unwanted can generate desirable consequences, author Jana Haggard offers a practical means of transforming victimization into empowerment. Scary Stories provides an example of how to retell a "real" story (fact-based) into a "true" story (redemptively, casting the narrator as a creator of desired current circumstance); and its worksheets guide a reader through telling her own story to move away from perpetuating uncomfortable feelings toward enjoying a happier life. Turn trauma into joy as you retell your story in a different light, and begin living a more empowered experience right away!