Becoming Whole: Writing Your Healing Story

by Linda Joy Myers

Becoming Whole is an important contribution to the literature of the memoir. In elegant, lively prose, therapist and memoir teacher Linda Myers demonstrates the power of a memoir to bridge, integrate, and heal the past. She reveals the profound process by which memoirs express personal as well as universal meaning. Becoming Whole also includes major section on the art and craft of memoir writing.

Becoming Whole includes:

• clear, cutting-edge insights into the healing that can come from reliving, expressing, and sharing life experiences
• inspiring samples from adult student memoirs to illustrate the subject of each chapter
• powerful exercises to help writers develop a story that readers don't want to put down
• definitive, life-stage memory prompts for memoir writers
• a carefully selected bibliography of writing resources and published memoirs
• a special section for therapists who apply memoir-writing in their own practices

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