Story Therapy is the revolutionary new approach to enhancing personal growth, developed by psychologist Dr. Courtney Johnson, a certified clinical hypnotherapist who received her Ph.D. from Duke University. She has designed Story Therapy's unique therapeutic method to combine the clinical value of hypnosis with the more personal and engaging aspects of storytelling. This powerful tool can be used to enable an individual to achieve a calm state, increasing positive thinking and the ability to resolve conflicts associated with past events.

The primary idea behind Story Therapy is this: When we learn from our experiences in life, these lessons are translated into stories. The meaning we attribute to these stories significantly influences how we live in the present. Our stories often act as "guides"—telling us what to expect in unknown situations. This, in turn, influences how we behave. Sometimes for the worse and sometimes for the better, expecting something to happen can actually make it more likely to happen. If you are expecting negative things to happen, this works to your disadvantage. But if you are expecting positive things to happen, then all the better for you.

Positive experiences lead us to expect positive results from our ongoing life experiences. This natural conditioning creates for us a continuing cycle of positive experiences, and hence, internal stories. However, when our experiences are negative, a negative cycle is created instead. One of the primary benefits of Story Therapy is that it helps to reduce the occurrence of these negative cycles by increasing positive expectations. It also takes familiar story lines with negative endings and turns them around so that they end positively. The creation of more positive expectations will allow you to realize a future for yourself that is more positive than it may have otherwise been. And, you can live more peacefully in every moment, with a more positive sense of what is possible in the world, and the meaning you attribute to it.

The stories on the CD are written to address themes of stories common to most people. The endings of these stories make them most unique. Rather than the negative outcome we have been conditioned to expect, these stories have positive resolutions. The people in the stories find innovate ways to deal with the negative situations and traps in which they find themselves. Thus, these are not "fake" happy endings. But rather, they are real, believable endings that you can achieve in your own life as well, in ways that are relevant to you.