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Phil Barber

ON AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Why tell your stories?

Updated: Aug 1

Why - because it’s part of our natural way. Humans produce stories like the earth produces trees. We are born carrying seeds of a great story. We arrived into an existing unfolding story, which itself is a part of a wider human story. Then there is the story of how we thought life was going to be, played out in the story of how life was, and is. It’s all juicy stuff!



My initial reason for writing and publishing my own autobiography was to engage simplify my complicated coming-of-age years. I wanted to find my roots, make sense of what seemed to make no sense. I had thorns in my chest from my father leaving before my mother gave birth to me. I had shame for my mother’s lack of stature. I had anger to the world of authority that raised me. I had shame and hurt, but I also recognised I had tremendous gifts that were sharpened in these experiences. I have a deepening affection for all the people in my life. Writing and performing a solo autobiographical play brought more clarity and strength. I discovered the wise elder in the younger me, and the playful younger me in my older self. Best thing I ever did!

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