Stories That Matter

How Hero’s Journey can help us reframe past trauma and how I learned that love is the only antidote to war

Ana Krajinovic
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6 min readOct 17, 2024

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Created by the author. Based on Campbell’s (1949) hero’s journey.

We all have stories that matter buried in our past. If we reach out to tell them, we can find new meaning, even if our experiences were traumatic. Structuring these stories in the form of hero’s journey can help us reframe past trauma.

Battling social media fatigue with stories that matter

This story is based on the second part of my Medium Day talk, which you can watch below. First of all, I want to thank everyone who came to my Medium Day session. I had a lot more attendees than I expected (way over 100) and there was a great vibe in the chat and in the discussion. It was just amazing, thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Stories that matter

In the age of social media and content over-saturation, we can easily reach a stage where we feel every story shared online is like any other. But whenever we do encounter a story…

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Ana Krajinovic
Ana Krajinovic

Written by Ana Krajinovic

A linguist and comic researcher, PhD, and comic creator writing about mental health, languages, creativity, and life stuff (also on anakrajinovic.substack.com)

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