劉永真

Hi, I’m Joey.

I can’t remember when I first started calling myself “storyteller” but I know my email signature has read “Learner - Adventurer - Storyteller” since my Hotmail days.

I started telling stories to keep the peace. Whether I was telling stories or pulling stories out of my family members, there would be moments of deep joy & connection in otherwise chaotic surroundings.

Storytelling as coping matured into storytelling as healing when I deepened my practice in narrative self-inquiry (research) and creative self-expression (spoken word poetry).

My studies in decolonization & Kundalini yoga helped me anchor the practices of my story work in: coming home to my body, healing my nervous system, and finding my sovereignty — rooted in joy-making, creativity, and communion.

Along the way, storytelling as connection, as belonging, as liberation became the throughline in my travels around the globe, my teaching in classrooms, my speaking on mics, becoming a wife & mother, and, now, the work that connects me to you.

Story work allows me to free myself & others continuously. I hope you get free too.