We’re committed to transparency, to ensure you gain and retain peace of mind in your Story of My Life Journal, and feel you can trust and have confidence in the tools and strategies it contains.
To that end, your Story of My Life Journal in the appendix section contains every source referenced in its creation. However, we wanted to go one step further and provide that list to you – whether you’re an existing customer, or potential customer – upfront and here, as well.
This is an eclectic bunch of sources, from text, to podcast, to video, from hardcopy books to websites, and from the lighthearted, to the seriously heavy pages of psychology research papers – and all things in between.
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