Everything Is a Story: Reclaiming the Power of Stories to Heal and Shape Our Lives
Stories are alive—and shape our personal and collective identities, for better and worse.

In Everything Is a Story, award-winning Indigenous author Kaitlin B. Curtice considers how stories take root in our lives like an acorn becoming an oak tree. Following a story's life cycle, Curtice explores how narratives shape both our inner lives and broader communities. Which stories should we pass on to future generations—and which can we finally let go?

This book invites readers to explore the power of story to liberate or limit, to build compassion or create division. With gentle insight that speaks to people across the spiritual spectrum, Curtice guides us through the art of storytelling as a path toward healing and connection.

With contemplative poetry woven throughout and a foreword by Simran Jeet Singh, Everything Is a Story offers a hope-filled framework for reshaping our lives by reclaiming stories of courage, wholeness, and deep-rooted compassion.
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Everything Is a Story: Reclaiming the Power of Stories to Heal and Shape Our Lives
Stories are alive—and shape our personal and collective identities, for better and worse.

In Everything Is a Story, award-winning Indigenous author Kaitlin B. Curtice considers how stories take root in our lives like an acorn becoming an oak tree. Following a story's life cycle, Curtice explores how narratives shape both our inner lives and broader communities. Which stories should we pass on to future generations—and which can we finally let go?

This book invites readers to explore the power of story to liberate or limit, to build compassion or create division. With gentle insight that speaks to people across the spiritual spectrum, Curtice guides us through the art of storytelling as a path toward healing and connection.

With contemplative poetry woven throughout and a foreword by Simran Jeet Singh, Everything Is a Story offers a hope-filled framework for reshaping our lives by reclaiming stories of courage, wholeness, and deep-rooted compassion.
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Everything Is a Story: Reclaiming the Power of Stories to Heal and Shape Our Lives

Everything Is a Story: Reclaiming the Power of Stories to Heal and Shape Our Lives

Everything Is a Story: Reclaiming the Power of Stories to Heal and Shape Our Lives

Everything Is a Story: Reclaiming the Power of Stories to Heal and Shape Our Lives

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Stories are alive—and shape our personal and collective identities, for better and worse.

In Everything Is a Story, award-winning Indigenous author Kaitlin B. Curtice considers how stories take root in our lives like an acorn becoming an oak tree. Following a story's life cycle, Curtice explores how narratives shape both our inner lives and broader communities. Which stories should we pass on to future generations—and which can we finally let go?

This book invites readers to explore the power of story to liberate or limit, to build compassion or create division. With gentle insight that speaks to people across the spiritual spectrum, Curtice guides us through the art of storytelling as a path toward healing and connection.

With contemplative poetry woven throughout and a foreword by Simran Jeet Singh, Everything Is a Story offers a hope-filled framework for reshaping our lives by reclaiming stories of courage, wholeness, and deep-rooted compassion.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781587436635
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/07/2025
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 328,060
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kaitlin B. Curtice is an Indigenous poet-storyteller, a public speaker, and the award-winning author of Native and Living Resistance. She has written for Sojourners, Religion News Service, On Being, Oprah Daily, and The Liminality Journal, and her work has been featured on CBS and in USA Today. A citizen of the Potawatomi nation, Kaitlin speaks on topics such as colonialism in faith communities, interfaith relationships, and the intersection of spirituality and identity, and she has collaborated with The Aspen Institute and Chautauqua Institution. She lives near Philadelphia with her family.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword by Simran Jeet Singh
As We Begin
Part 1: Seed
1. The Origins of Stories
2. Oak Stories
3. Stories Are Mirrors
4. The Shape of Stories
Part 2: Sprout
5. Gathering Stories
6. Stories of Faith and Religion
7. Returning to Our Body's Stories
8. A Maze of Stories
Part 3: Sapling
9. Stories of Aging and Happiness
10. Stories We Tell About One Another
11. Stories of Myth and Othering
12. Stories of Sports and Exploration
Part 4: Mature Tree
13. Stories Are Labels
14. Stories of Land and Food
15. Stories Told in Public
16. Stories of Belief and Letting Go
Part 5: Dropping Seeds
17. Interfaith, Expansive, Futuristic Stories
18. Merging Stories
19. Stories for Healing
20. The Future of Storytelling
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