“…By collaboratively challenging tired and ‘well‐rehearsed’ explanations within our stories, we focussed ‘on re‐searching and deconstructing meaning making processes’ (Speedy, 2005a, p. 31), in order to get closer to an embodied sense of our research topic. This was carried out, not in an attempt to find ‘the truth’ or to ‘liberate the story‐teller from her history’ (Claiborne, Cornford, Davies, Milligan, & White, , p. 50), but to uncover ‘discursive imperatives at play’ (Davies et al, , p. 372). As a result, new narratives emerged – some tentatively, others through resonant connections made with others – and formed richer, more thickly textured memories of the experiences being researched.…”