Listening to it nonstop for more than a decade, even in the background of my consciousness, is exhausting. I want the noise to stop.

Getting caught in the Story Game is a trap that’s easy to fall into because it’s built on a fact we’re all aware of on some level: stories compete with one another.

From book reviews to a return to the basics, here’s what our readers were reading most often on the Story+Advocacy blog.

Somewhere between impromptu and manuscript speaking is the style of speaking that enables you to be practiced, flexible, and natural.

“The workshops helped us nurture a culture of transparency and trust.”

“I’ve learned how to move audiences from apathy to empathy to action.”

As soon as I finished David Chrisinger’s Stories Are What Save Us: A Survivor’s Guide to Writing about Trauma, I wanted to start writing.