HealthStoryCollaborative

Health Story Collaborative collects, shares, and honors stories of illness and healing. Our goal is to create a forum for story sharing to make the process of navigating illness less isolating, and to empower individuals and families facing health challenges.

We harness the healing power of stories.

We define “illness” as any imbalance in physical, psychological, or spiritual wellbeing, and “healing” as the process of moving toward balance and wholeness. We believe in the value of these stories as a celebration of hope, human resiliency and dignity.

Since 2010, we have been collecting illness narratives. Our goal is to honor the integrity of the story, to capture its essence, in a way that is relevant to listeners, and, most importantly, healing to the participants. In this way, our intentions are different from what a journalist’s might be. Not all of the stories have dramatic flare. Rather, they are portraits of individuals living their lives in the face of illness, moving forward in myriad ways, and always with courage. Creating these stories is a collaborative process between participants and a trained Health Story Collaborative facilitator. We will continue to build this audio library over time.

HealthStoryCollaborative’s tracks

• Sidewalk Lessons by HealthStoryCollaborative
• Sandy by HealthStoryCollaborative
• The Reverberations of Rape: Orna's Story by HealthStoryCollaborative
• Healing From Sexual Abuse By A Teacher by HealthStoryCollaborative
• Kiara by HealthStoryCollaborative
• Colleen by HealthStoryCollaborative
• Finding Mental Health: One Woman's Story Of "Recovering From Psychiatry" by HealthStoryCollaborative
• Laurafinal by HealthStoryCollaborative
• Laurafinal by HealthStoryCollaborative
• Kaysix: Moving Forward After a Heart Transplant by HealthStoryCollaborative