This one's a shortie but still powerful AF.

This week I ran our first Rewriter's Collective meetup of the month, and it sparked something I couldn't not talk about: taking a story inventory.

If you've been around here for a minute, you know Rewritten is all about tracing your old stories back to where they started, reframing them, and rewriting them into something that actually reflects who you are.

But the heavy lift isn't the awakening. It's the embodying. It's practicing the new story on repeat until it becomes who you are.

In this episode, I'm breaking down:

• What a "story inventory" actually is (and how I stole the concept straight from Al-Anon's Step Four)
• Why "keeping your side of the street clean" might be the most freeing mindset shift you adopt this year
• The daily inventory questions I ask myself — did I tell any lies today, did I say yes when I meant no, am I avoiding a conversation I know I need to have
• Why forgiveness journals deserve just as much real estate as gratitude journals
• The moment I stopped victimizing myself over my relationship with my mom, and what changed when I finally saw her as a human being who was struggling — not just "my mother who should have been ___"
• What I'm actually most proud of (and it’s not what you think)

This episode is a reminder that you can't control other people. You never could.

But you can take radical ownership of your side of the street, and that ownership is where your power lives.

♥ Connect with me on Instagram: @jessicagraham.storycoach

♥ Start the process with a FREE Name The Narrative Session.

♥ Sign up for the FREE monthly gathering for ambitious women in business, Stories in Action.

♥ Book a call to discuss narrative coaching.

About me: I help female founders and ambitious women rewrite the stories that are keeping them stuck in outdated identities.

For months, I chalked up my brain fog, low motivation, and low-grade depression to everything but the real thing. In this episode, I get honest about the middle-of-the-night epiphany that revealed the truth, the exact moment "I hope this happens" turned into "this is happening," and the wild string of manifestations that followed, including winning a ticket to see Cathy Heller in LA three days after I made the decision.

We're talking about:

• Why chronic fatigue and brain fog can sometimes be a symptom of an unaddressed life misalignment, not just a hormone issue
• The difference between hoping for something and deciding it's happening, and why that shift changes your energy
• How codependency recovery reshaped the way I think about "making things happen"
• Why sisterhood and community outside your immediate family isn't optional, it's oxygen
• Why embodiment work needs a container (and a little BTS on The Rewriter’s Collective)

If you've been sitting on a hope you keep swatting away, this is your permission slip to decide instead.

♥ Connect with me on Instagram: @jessicagraham.storycoach

♥ Start the process with a FREE Name The Narrative Session.

♥ Sign up for the FREE monthly gathering for ambitious women in business, Stories in Action.

♥ Book a call to discuss narrative coaching.

About me: I help female founders and ambitious women rewrite the stories that are keeping them stuck in outdated identities.

For the first time on the podcast, I'm inviting one of my Rewriters to share her rewrite with us. Cherie Faus-Smith, a clarity and confidence coach, memoirist, and domestic abuse and melanoma survivor, joins me to share what it was actually like to go through Rewritten after years of therapy that helped, but never quite got her unstuck.

We talk about the difference between processing in a 50-minute session versus having space to actually sit with a memory until it cracks open. Cherie shares how she rewrote her core story of "I'm not believed," how that shift changed her relationship with her parents and her marriage, and how naming her own narrative led directly to the birth of a business shift.

This is a real, unedited conversation about what it looks like when the work actually works.

If any part of Cherie's story resonates, I'd love for you to take the next step: book a free Name the Narrative session, the first step into Rewritten, linked below.

HOW TO CONNECT WITH CHERIE:

Cherie Faus-Smith is a memoirist, survivor, and advocate for women reclaiming their voice. After years of self-abandonment and giving her power away, she found her way back to herself and now helps women in midlife speak up, take up space, and reconnect with who they truly are.

Connect with Cherie Faus-Smith here: https://linktr.ee/cherie.faus.smith

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♥ Connect with me on Instagram: @jessicagraham.storycoach

♥ Start the process with a FREE Name The Narrative Session.

♥ Sign up for the FREE monthly gathering for ambitious women in business, Stories in Action.

♥ Book a call to discuss narrative coaching.

About me: I help female founders and ambitious women rewrite the stories that are keeping them stuck in outdated identities.