This isn’t a book about rocks, though my house is filled with them.
It’s not about divorce either, but like the big jagged stone it is, it’s in here.
I didn’t want to write a cancer comeback story either, but… it happened.
And it’s not about God.
Who am I kidding?
It’s
always
about
God.
We come into the world as a story stone, with a divine narrative of who we are tucked inside. We are made AS something FOR something. As the story stone of our being meets the ocean that is this life, our story ripples out. Each ripple represents a turning point, a time where we ran to or from the story we are made as.
When we can understand our own story and learn how story works through us as an ever evolving, expanding invitation, we can bravely, yet compassionately, step into the myth we are made for.
At this time I have only come across twelve core stories which root the countless expressions of how we live them. There are as many unique expressions as there are people.
These are the twelve stories:
The Enough Story
The Matter Story
The Hope Story
The Power Story
To Be or Not to Be Story
The With Story
The Life Story
The Thing Story
The Belonging Story
The Control Story
The Worthy Story
The Love Story
Each of us walks with all twelve stories at the same time, but one will always lead. It is the story you can’t run fast enough from or fast enough to. It is the great partner within every major turning point of your life. It is both your poison and your medicine.
I introduce you to these stories through my own Core Story: The Matter Story.
This book is a layering of the twelve Core Stories, corresponding Origin stories, and my own personal experiences as a collection of stories from my core, tracking the ripples as we go.
I’m a poet.
I’m a tracker.
I’m a storyteller.
I am a follower of mystery.
And I am a star.
As are you.
Not only are we a Story Stone, but we are literally made from stardust.
We are a supernova in the making.
next?
December 25th, 2020 – 50 Days of Christmas. I turn 50 this year and in celebration of my half-century I am writing and performing a one-woman show called O MY GOD which will be touring in small venues across BC, Canada March/April/May 2021. Tickets for the show will be available during these fifty days, as will the pre-sale of STORY STONES.
February 14th, 2021 – Staged Reading from both my book: Story Stones, and O MY GOD. This is the official kick-off of the rehearsal process for the tour.
March 1st 2021 – The Birthday Tour of O MY GOD begins.
September 2021 – The Release of STORY STONES the book
If you would like to be kept up to date about Story Stones the book, or O MY GOD and my upcoming tour, click here.
I’ll also send you some stuff about what Core Story is, how I use it, and why I care so much about it.
Tina Overbury is a core-communications specialist who works with individuals and organizations who feel called. She is a storyteller, performer, and a professional listener who works with narrative and story structure as a vehicle for human connection. Her work is rooted in Myth, Mysticism, and the practice of personal faith. She brings thirty years of collaborative storytelling in theatre, film, marketing, team based selling, and workshop facilitation. She is the founder of Live Your Best Story, a weekend retreat of deep listening held on Bowen Island, BC, Canada and is the voice and story behind TinaOLife, home to Story Stones, TinaO’s online gathering of listening in to sacred stories. Tina is a proud associate of PowHERhouse media where she listens and supports the ‘stories’ of whole and integrated leaders of tomorrow.
Trish July 5, 2020
Love it, and certain it will help many come to understand themselves on an even deeper level. I enjoyed the core story, it had my curiosity for a few years.