Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse - Storytelling Legacy : Everyone Has Stories--What Are Yours?

Storytelling Legacy

Everyone Has Stories

What Are Yours?

Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse

I have been privileged to call Sharon my friend and colleague. Ive heard so many stories from her over the years. Therefore, I know if you want to be entertained and also enlightened while you are laughing, crying, smiling, and sighing, then this is the book that is sure to do it! I can assure you that you wont be disappointed.

Raymond Higby, MD, retired family physician and addiction medicine practitioner

From a pioneer whose work has shaped our understanding of disruptive dynamics within the family system and what must take place to heal them, comes a most welcome and timely book. Sharon Wegscheider-Cruses Storytelling Legacy provides insightful and inspiring wisdom through the use of narrative and story and how a deepening awareness of our own personal stories can affect and shape our lives and create understanding and meaning over time.

Dan Barmettler, founder and Director, The Institute for Integral Development, and former Co-Director of Conferences, US Journal Training

Sharon has lived a rich and fulfilling life and her stories reflect that with humor, wisdom, and compassion. Her ongoing desire to help people continues to enrich their lives and inspire them to be their best selves. Read Sharons stories and youll be moved to ponder and write your own to great and lasting benefit.

Susan Zimmerman, LMFT, author of Rays of Hope: Lighting the Way in Lifes Transitions and Losses

Thanks to my adventurous aunts, I grew up with a love of storytelling. Our times together not only included reading books, but hearing stories from their own lives. Conversations were filled with tales of their mishaps, lessons learned, travels, and amusing people they met along the way. Whether consciously or not, they taught me that stories matter and every life is filled with them. Storytelling Legacy is a great example. As Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse shares stories from her own life, she reminds us that we all have stories to tell. Dont keep them to yourself.

Barbara Winter, author, speaker, and publisher

Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse is a master storyteller. Her stories here feature equal helpings of wit, heart, and humor. She inspires and empowers readers to think about their own stories and share them with the world.

Jerry Moe, MA, National Director of Childrens Programs (retired), Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

Sharon is a master storyteller who inspires, heals, educates, and loves those she touches with her writing. Her wisdom has been a lifeline to me. Sharing her life stories is a way to continue her legacy of love, joy, grief, and passions. You go, girl!

Cheryl Keller, friend, confidante, and soul sister

The latest book from Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse gives us permission and provides inspiration to speak the truth. For decades, Sharons grace, grit, and gratitude has guided individuals and families to build bridges through their individual and collective stories. A force that has changed the trajectory of my life both personally and professionally, Sharons stories have the power to heal, inspire, and most importantly, create action that can change our world.

Jill Krush, CCO Choice House Treatment, Onsite Workshops guide, therapist, trainer, psychodramatist, and fellow storyteller

In Storytelling Legacy, Sharon tells it like it isand she has had quite the life to share with us. With humor and tenderness, we walk through the authors experiences and feel an intimate connection to the story. Featuring a cast of colorful characters, this is a most enjoyable and poignant read!

Mel Pohl, MD, DFASAM, Senior Medical Consultant, Pain Recovery Program, The Pointe Malibu Recovery Center

I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with Sharon for almost thirty years and thought I had heard most of her stories. Yet she seems to have an inexhaustible supply of wit and wisdom wrapped in anecdotes by turns affecting and amusing, and always instructive and inspiring.

Patrick Cotter, writer and teacher on Canadas Wet Coast

Sharon Wegscheider-Cruses autobiographical Storytelling Legacy is a sumptuous smorgasbord of uplifting and often humorous stories about how and where she learned her valuable trove of lifesaving skills. She generously shares these with us as she models how vulnerability, courage, strength, and commitment to telling our own stories can help others find their own power and place in the world. She helped me change my life for the better. Sound interesting?

Peter Alsop, PhD, singer-songwriter, lecturer, grateful human

In traditional cultures, it is an expectation and deemed essential, for the communitys survival that the elders share the wisdom they have gathered over their lifetimes. Sharons latest book is a must read for those of us who want a guide to telling our own story. Imagine the gift of being able to sit at the knee of your ancestors as they shared their life lessons.

Ted Klontz PhD, Associate Professor of Practice, Creighton University, Heider College of Business, Financial Psychology Institute

Sharons book contains insightful stories and observations that will allow you to reflect on your own life story and the lessons you want to pass on to others.

Melanie McNiff, adventure-seeker, travel-loving millennial, and corporate consultant

Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse has touched countless lives with her wise words and healing touch. Both professionally and personally, Sharon is a loved and loving sage and mentor.

During our forty-year friendship, Sharon has contributed mightily to our publishing and conference companies with multiple books and scores of presentations at professional conferences designed to provide hope and healing to individuals and families with childhood trauma wounds.

In this creative memoir Sharon weaves a delightful treasure-trove of personal stories of a life well lived.

Gary Seidler, co-founder, Health Communications, Inc., and US Journal Training

Sharon Cruse has led an astonishing lifeone of healing, teaching, learning, exploring and giving love and light to many thousands if not, indeed, millions. It is no wonder that on her amazing journey she has collected a bounty of stories, and as a gifted storyteller she has gathered a hundred of them to share with us. They run the gamut from tender and touching to funny and self-deprecating and are a joy to all who will be fortunate enough to read them.

Doug Green, Ranger Doug and Riders in the Sky

Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse has been one of the true pioneers in family treatment in the addictions field. When she began her work, few understood the traumatic impact of growing up or living with addiction. Today, family treatment has become common practice. I have known Sharon as a client, a colleague, a mentee, and a friend. Her work was a part of the jet fuel that helped to propel my own personal recovery. I owe her so much in my own personal life and in the family we have created, which is now three generations. Thank you, Sharon. I am a part of your story and you are part of mine.

Tian Dayton, PhD, bestselling author, psychologist, and psychodramatist

Our lives are measured by our stories. Story is the context of life, the meaning of life, the power of life, and the power of recovery. I grew up on Sharons stories. As a mentor to me, Sharon has always known and honored the power of story, her story, and the story of others. Sharon is a master of the art of story. This book is a testament to the significance of story.