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Sunday, February 21, 4:00 p.m. The Power of Memoir—How to Write Your Healing Story Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore Berkeley, CA If you wish to place an order for The Power of Memoir at Mrs. Dalloway’s, you can order books from them by phone (510.704.8222),... [Read more]

The title of my newly released book The Power of Memoir feels muscular and, well, powerful to me.  I find myself thinking about what this power is, the power of memoir writing, and then I’m floating back in my mind to all the workshops I have taught,... [Read more]

Stories from the Heart V Story Circle Network Fifth National Women’s Memoir Conference When: February 4-7, 2010 Where: Wyndham Hotel, Austin, Texas Linda’s workshop: Structures of Memoir—Weaving the Narrative and Emotional Arc Please visit... [Read more]

We all know that writing our personal stories is a challenge–of heart, mind, and body. To wrestle with truth, history, and memory requires us to be brave as we dare to speak out after years of silence. For some, there is the sound of trumpets as... [Read more]

Surprise, surprise. I just discovered that Kindle already has my new book. No yet officially released, it’s available already on Kindle! The wonders of the digital world! So now people are buying it, downloading it and writing me–this is... [Read more]

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Linda Joy Myers, Ph. D. Memoir Coach and MFT Therapist linda@memoriesandmemoirs.com Writing stories heals body and soul, and is a powerful way to integrate and change our perspective about the past. Feelings long suppressed can be released by writing both painful and happy stories. Research published in the Journal of the American Medicine Association... [Read more]

Linda Joy Myers, PhD. Many people I work with in therapy or in my writing-as-healing classes discover stories that surprise them—stories about the mistakes they felt their parents made, power imbalances in the family, or stories about physical or sexual abuse. The darker stories are often a surprise: when writers sat down to write, those issues were... [Read more]

Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D. “This works even better than therapy,” says Kara, a bright-eyed middle-aged woman, her lined notebook lying on her lap. “I’ve talked about the stuff that happened to me over and over again with lots of therapists. I’ve done all kinds of therapy, but it wasn’t until I wrote it down and told the whole story many times... [Read more]

So many women talk about their relationships with their mothers—no matter how old they are. For some, their mother, from whom they have supposedly separated long ago, still occupies a central place in the psyche. She’s too close, she’s too much. She has advice, is nosy, and interferes. The daughter wants time away, she wants boundaries, and fights... [Read more]