Integrating Your Life Experience

into Your Story

Jondi Whitis

Powerpoint design & illustrations by Angela Treat Lyon

What’s Your story?

Human Design

Meaning ≠ Truth

Life Experience

Life

Brain

Acts of Conscious Integration

Experience:

• As a child, I was raised with a rotating cast of people. • Temporary is ‘normal.’

• ’Next’ is a given.

Interpreted Meaning:

• Life is uncertain

• I am inconvenient

Experience:

• Mom’s new place has a lot of rules. • Mom’s new boyfriend has a lot of rules.

Interpreted Meaning:

• If you want to stay, mind the rules, be good enough to keep around

Experience:

• Mom always sides with new Dad. • They are a team.

Interpreted Meaning:

• I don’t belong.

• I’m on my own.

Experience:

• Moved every year.

• Perpetual new kid.

Interpreted Meaning:

• I have to keep proving myself worthy.

Experience:

• Crushed by the one I loved

Interpreted Meaning:

• Loving that much hurts too bad

• Don’t risk that again.

• Stay in control

. . . and you can see how well that’s gonna work out . . .

A Peek at My Journal

Truth:

• I was inconvenient • I have been loved often . . . and well . . .

• And I still am.

And that’s my story.

Self-Love

My life experience, my story

What ’s Your story?