Author Guest Post – Good Vs Evil – A Story as Old as Time by Kerensa Jennings

We all love stories. We can lose ourselves in them. Escape, run away. Use them as a source of solace and comfort. Empathise with the characters, feel their joy, endure their pain. Stories give us permission to live an alternate reality, fly away into our imaginations. Stories give us permission to experience what psychologists call ‘transference’ – where we project our emotions and life stories onto others. It is easier for a child to hate a step-mother in a story than to admit in his or her heart of hearts they hate their own.

I was invited to do this guest post for Bloomin Brilliant Books and take the opportunity to explore good versus evil – a story as old as time…