Hey folks! Kevan here. I'm really excited for this opportunity to introduce you to my new blog/ vlog, The Thick of Thin Things. You might think that that's kind of an odd title for a private family therapy practice-based blog, but this is due to my Wordsmithing background as a Narrative Therapy practitioner. One basis of Narrative tradition is that our life stories are socially constructed through our words, both of ourselves & others. A favorite author of mine, Chimamanda Adichie, said this of Single Storying people & Wordsmithing as she described her experiences of stereotype in moving from Nigeria to the United States:
"All of these stories make me who I am, but to insist on only these negative stories is to flatten my experience & overlook the other stories that formed me. The Single Story creates stereotypes, & the problem with stereotypes is not that they're untrue, but that they're incomplete; they make this one story, the only story" (The Danger of the Single Story, Ted.com).
Through this blog & Golden Heart Family Therapy I'd like to do some Wordsmithing together. As co-investigative reporters we can shed light on the experiences of life, parsing out stories that disenfranchise you as a relational person & removes agency, from those stories of you that are precious & place worth on your relationships. I hope that through our conversations you'll find your story-telling rights have been restored. Specifically through this blog I'd like to construct a growing Archive of Insider Knowledge, by you, the League of Becoming. My hope in this, is the same as French philosopher Michel Foucault: "The
main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in
the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end,
do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The
game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know where it will end”.
For those that are more visual & auditory-learners, follow this link for the video intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q28tci5bzM.
