The connection between life narrative and mythical storytelling

It feels very strange to open up the blog after so many years of silence. I still remember the excitement of the original idea i.e. having a blog about my journey as a budding writer, transalator and developer of digital stories. Since 2009 much water has gone under the bridge, but my interest in stories has not lapsed. Instead, it has expanded to include personal narratives as a part of making sense to ourselves and to others of meaningful aspects of our lives. I am therefore researching a connection between mythical stories, and mythological characters to the constructing and reconstructing of the narratives of our lives. June 2018 finds me in Mexico, typing in my family home, and itching to start researching new stories for the Stories from the Americas Blog, and trying to reflect on my personal narrative, as I try to make sense of my life as a mother, a storyteller and now, in my new incarnation as a psychotherapist.Before coming back "home", I retrained as a pyschotherapist at the University of Edinburgh and started working in organisations that provided support for carers, and later, for families where a family member suffered from post partum depression, or just found it difficult to adapt to having a little wee one in the house. This experience facilitated my current work as a psychoterapist in Vifac, which is a centre that provides support for homeless pregnant women in Mexico. Funnily enough, some of my experience as a storyteller, and some of my training in the initial diploma in art therapy at Metafora in Spain, have proven very useful. The return to Mexico has been somehat complex having lived in Scotland for a most part of my professional life. This might be the reason why I feel the need to connect ancestral stories of my homeland, and my latin american culture, to the narratives of my life as I embark upon it afresh. Narratives can be told through words, but also through other forms of self expression, like a painting, or textiles, or dance, or a film, like in the digital sotry telling elements of this blog.