• Descansos blog by Alice Perle

    Reclamation and Focus: Pinning Down Our Past Through Descansos

    Hello, if you’re new to the blog, thank you for being here. I’m Alice Perle, the author of Resolve. I write a weekly article that can be read via the website or subscribed to. Today, I invite you to join me on a journey through the concept of descansos. Descansos is a term introduced to me by renowned author Clarissa Pinkola Estes. When I first read Clarissa’s words they resonated and stayed with me whilst writing Resolve. I was preparing to be the guest on a podcast this week and wrote out some notes, including this introduction: My Brother Cut Off My Path I made it to my eighth year…

  • Memoirs and Storytelling

    Memoirs and Storytelling

    I have always appreciated storytelling. Across every decade of my life, I have either listened to or read stories out loud to my children. Even as I learned to become a hypnotherapist, I discovered the wonderful art of hypnotic language and crafting metaphor loops. I love being mesmerised and visualising the stories as they play out on the page in front of me, through audio, or on a screen. In this week’s blog, I’m going to talk about the roles that I see memoirs and storytelling play to raise awareness and foster understanding of the family and societal taboo – sibling sexual abuse: Our memoirs and storytelling are powerful tools…