Your Story Matters: Processing Pain and Trauma By Jeffrey Pillow on January 8, 2018 — 4 mins read Serani continues, pointing to humans' basic need to understand, citing research that to begin the healing process we must tell our story: "Our personal narrative offers us a chance for not just understanding, but for reorganization [of] our sense of self. A self that was wounded, broken, frightened or lost—but can now be reclaimed." More