While there is indisputable evidence that the process of telling your story is healing in and of itself, when you tell your story to a witness, or write it knowing it will be read by someone else, the potential benefits increase.

·       Improved self-esteem. Research findings by pioneering psychologist Carl Rogers show that the unconditional positive regard of a therapist will help clients develop self-regard, a necessary element for development into the real or actualized self.

·        Ability to form emotional bonds. Research into the way we form attachments to others has shown that the feeling of being accurately experienced by another person is a vital element for the creation of identity and the ongoing ability to connect with others.

·        Improved health. More recent research in the field of neuroscience proves that we need to be in relationship with another being in order to regulate our emotions and physiology and to optimize our health and our experience of life.

·        Longer life. Numerous studies have shown that emotional intimacy with others, which can be defined as the ability and willingness to disclose the story of the self, increases longevity and improves the quality of our lives.

            Whether or not you decide to engage in Cyber Story Therapy, telling the story of your life to trustworthy others, or writing it and letting the safe people in your life read what you have written, will be a beneficial act of kindness towards yourself. Please read my story on this web site as one way of deciding whether I will be the person to whom you bestow the honor of being witness to your story.