The Lion’s Side: DiscoverME/RecoverME and the Utilization of Storytelling for Emotional Transformation

The story that I love to tell at the beginning of workshops or sessions is called “The Precious Stone.” In the story, there was an elder woman who would walk through the forest every day, taking in all the ambience it had to offer. They said it was in the forest where she felt closest to the Divine. On one journey she came across a stone unlike any she had ever seen before—she immediately knew there was something special about it. So she picked it up, put it in her pouch, and kept walking. As she continued her daily