Using the principles and practices of narrative therapy, Callan McDonnell and Michelle Daley meet with ordinary people to hear their extraordinary stories and share how they have made sense of themselves and life. Learn how you can use narrative practice to transform the stories of your life.
Defining Stories
Claim This Podcastby Callan McDonnell
5.0(6 reviews)
14 episodes
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Using the principles and practices of narrative therapy, Callan McDonnell and Michelle Daley meet with ordinary people to hear their extraordinary stories and share how they have made sense of themselves and life. Learn how you can use narrative practice to transform the stories of your life.
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Recent Episodes
July 8, 2025
Episode 14: Survival Stories with Kelly
<p>Kelly has a mesmerising force with which she engages with the world and although her conversation with us might be called a story of survival, it more like a story about thriving, or continuing to thrive. When the upcoming horizon in your life story looks rose-coloured because you’ve made it through a separation, you’ve found a new life-partner and you are starting to feel like you’ve found your stride again,your narrative arc does not want the mind-numbing news that you have to postpone joy for an immediate health crisis. </p><p>Kelly’s life went in an entirely new direction when at a relatively young age she learned she had stage 3 ovarian cancer. Her life story was dramatically interrupted and sent in a new direction. How Kelly has managed herself through this transition, how she has found meaning and rebuilt her physical health and her dynamism is a testament to her inimitable attitude towards life.</p><p>We invite you to listen with awe to the gems of learning and meaning-making that Kelly has arrived at and with which she is so generous in sharing. Here is a person who is not defined by fear and who has learned how you rebuild an identity. Shealso shares some great tips of how we can be present for the people in our lives who might be moving through a life defining event. Hear what it means to show up, to avoid trying to fix the situation and how to validate the person’s experience. </p><p>Kelly is the kind of person you’d love to have in your friendship circle because she’s the one that knows how to honour loss and how to move alongside uncertainty and fear rather thanbe at war with it. She’s the one who will lift you up, push you forward and remind you that you’ve got this. She knows all this because that’s what she did to reach the shores of her new horizon</p>
June 9, 2025
Episode 13: Migration Stories with Clare
Clare shares her migration story and discusses the emotional challenges of adapting to a new country, highlighting the importance of community and resilience in overcoming adversity in this interview.
May 12, 2025
Episode 12: Coming of Age Stories
<p>Adolescence can be brutal. Finding our path out of the hellscape of the teenage years is no easy feat. Adolescence is so difficult because it’s a time of<strong> </strong>such profound change without full control over what is happening inside of us and around us nor is there clarity about how this will all turn out. It’s a liminal space – that bridge between who you were and who you’re becoming. What Oscar shares so poignantly with us in this episode is that sense of hopelessness that can travel with us in these confusing times of our life. </p><p>Oscar has such vivid recall of how his world seemed so darkand it appeared that others knew what they were doing and where they were taking their lives. His confusion about himself and his harsh comparison of himself against others remind us how hard it is to invest in anything when feel so unsure of who we are. It’s a time where we lack intention, and we think weare so incapable. We disengage from our lives and what travels with us is the dark hopelessness.</p><p>What I love about Oscar’s story is the antidote to thishopelessness that he gets to experience and to share with us. It is love that gets us through tough times. Even when we are kicking off and being disagreeable in so many ways and we feel so disenchanted with life there are often a few remarkable humans that just love us through this moment. Oscar recognises these key people who made his life better and different and so while at first this may sound like a story of hopelessness it’s actually a love story.</p><p>Growing up is messy and confusing. We can get lost and mayfeel very alone with own thoughts and our wounded hearts. What Oscar teaches us is that if we can let the people and the activities, we love become a part of our lives, we will stumble upon hope again. When we start to give value to others, we begin to realise how valuable we are to ourselves. We start to emerge with a stronger sense of identity, purpose, and<strong></strong>resilience<strong>. </strong>We come of age<strong> </strong>seeing ourselves and the world with clearer eyes. We start making choices from that deeper understanding and it dawns on us that we area more conscious, capable, and complex version of ourselves. We’ve grown up a bit. </p>
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