Once upon a time . . . . Each of us has a zillion stories to tell. Dazzling stories, ordinary stories. So many stories — treasures that matter. We tell them over and over. We believe them to be our truth. But there may be more to the story—the moment of kindness in an otherwise awful breakup, the new life path discovered when all the doors closed. Take another look. Write the whole story. Tell more of your story than you noticed before.

For therapists who listen to and tell stories every day and for the psychologically curious person, the gift of Uncovering Treasures That Matter is in its countless questions written by a forever psychologist. As a therapist, please give a question, a theme, or more to your clients who can imagine and consider while seeking and finding a choice-full life. For your personal discovery, write using the question that makes you noisy inside and takes you on an incredible inner journey.

Ten categories and fifty themes with sensitizing questions and prompts to write about.

These may be:

~ The rules of your life, surely more than you thought

~ Living a big life or a small one

~ Birthdays, the real and the wished for

~ First and last — we usually know the first but not the last

~ Treasures that matter, a person, an experience, a thing

~What I know to be so

~Finding your voice.

Notice, see, and remember who you were, are, and might be.

Be amazed by what you discover, what matters to you now.