Table 5 Quotes from participants and field notes for the ‘Healthcare professionals’ difficulty in telling their stories domain’

2.f

It was also difficult because for the first time, I wrote something about my experience highlighting my emotions, as well. (INT_02)

2.g

In my opinion, not enough work has been done on professionals’ narratives…we hardly ever reflect on our own experiences, our own emotions, and being able to tell them also allows patients to start learning to decentralise and thus also to put themselves in the head of the professional to grasp what the difficulties may be in the care pathway here. (INT_09)

2.j

It’s not easy to share such intense experiences with people you don't know, but then you think that if we’re all here, it’s because we want to help each other to learn to work together. (INT_05)

2.k

All the participants narrated their story in front of the group, holding the sheet of paper on which they had written it. Everyone was silent as they listened, and they were in an attentive attitude, the narrator's tone of voice varied, and there were often pauses, revealing the emotion in their storytelling. (FN)

2.l

The narratives are very important and emotionally very impactful because I’m still shaken now. (INT_01)