The Rewrite Book

Most of us are living inside stories we never consciously chose. Stories about who we are, what we deserve, and what is possible for us. We inherited them, absorbed them from the people around us, and somewhere along the way started mistaking them for the truth.

The Rewrite is a fourteen-chapter guide through the three layers of story that shape your life: your past stories, the beliefs formed in childhood that follow you into jobs, relationships, and cities. Your present stories, the emotional patterns running in the background of your daily life. And your future stories, the vision you have not yet allowed yourself to believe.

 Each chapter opens with a real story from a real person, someone navigating exactly the kind of crossroads you may be standing at right now. Someone who looked at their story from a different angle and found a different life waiting on the other side.

 This book will not tell you to think positive. It will not ask you to pretend the hard things did not happen. It will ask you one question, over and over, in fourteen different ways:

 What’s the story you keep telling yourself that isn’t actually true?

 Deanna Moffitt is a certified life and executive coach, former Second City storytelling instructor, and the person who left a six-figure salary to move to another city and perform improv for eleven years. She has coached hundreds of people through exactly this work. The Rewrite is the book she wishes she had found decades earlier.

 Your story isn’t holding you back. Your belief in it is.