What are the symbols of your life?

My new lead question in counseling: what would you say were the four major symbols of your life. If you were a novel, what would be the themes and recurring symbolic images?

This tends to lead to thinking about your whole narrative and what images are associated with your core identity! Reconciling and integrating identity is my passion!

So far, this question has led to great conversations! Thinking of the major symbols of our lives helps us piece together our stories!

Sometimes, i ask people to paint the images, or just sketch them; others times to journal them, or write a poem. Regardless it’s about gathering our symbols into one story—it’s about integrating our tales! What symbols have repeated throughout your life since childhood? Good way to find our true stories! Each of us, such great stories worth gathering and editing forever!