Reframing Our Stories
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH UNLIKELY COLLABORATORS
Through documentary, podcasts, articles, illustrations, and animations, this Perception Box project examines reframing and rewriting our stuck stories into unique, exceptional new ones.
After a cancer diagnosis layered on years of trauma and personal loss, Lisa Keefauver realized that pursuing constant happiness was an impossible—and harmful—standard. Instead, she turns toward aliveness, embracing the full spectrum of human emotion as a more truthful, healing path.
Written by Lisa Keefauver • Illustrations by Chau Luong
ARTICLERediscovering imagination
Journal role-playing games offer adults a way to reconnect with imagination, creativity, and a sense of wonder we often lose to daily life. By blending storytelling, escapism, and self-reflection, they become powerful tools for emotional resilience and personal growth.
Written by Summer Tao • Illustrations by Lev Fielding
DOCUMENTARY:Reframing Our Stories
⚠️ Mature Themes • What if the stories we tell ourselves could change our lives? Join Lisa Keefauver, MSW, author, grief activist, and podcast host of Grief Is A Sneaky Bitch, as she explores how narrative therapy helps us reclaim our agency, reframe grief, and discover resilience.
From surviving trauma to facing profound loss and navigating her own cancer diagnosis, Lisa shares how language shapes our identity—and how we can rewrite the “stuck stories” that hold us back.
Featuring Lisa Keefauver • Dr. Sunita Puri, Hui-wen Sato, Lisa Paul, Cyndie Spiegel, Colin Campbell, Steph Jagger and Michelle Hord
Exec Producer/Camera Rob VanAlkemade • Series Producer Erika Paige Barnette• Associate Producer Nahima Shaffer • Gaffer/Camera Ames Hoang • Sound Caleb Mose • Series Editor Jae Shim • Creative Director Jennymarie Jemison• Animations Jon McCormack and Mevaki • Music by East Forest
“We are not the problem. The problem is the problem.”
-Lisa Keefauver, MSW
Some aligned orgs for support:
Mental Health America • Dulwich Centre • Lisa Keefauver
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