Memory Writers Network » Trauma http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog Hundreds of Essays and Interviews to Help You Read and Write Memoirs Tue, 15 May 2012 12:09:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 2006-2007 jerrywaxler@yahoo.com (Jerry Waxler) jerrywaxler@yahoo.com (Jerry Waxler) Self-help 1440 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/LearnMemoirCoverFront-small.jpg Memory Writers Network http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog 144 144 Reading and writing memoirs. Record the Stories of Your Life, tips, how-to, memoir book reviews, by Jerry Waxler memoir, writers, self-help, book-reviews, essays Jerry Waxler Jerry Waxler jerrywaxler@yahoo.com no no Why write memoirs after combat or other trauma http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/why-combat-memoir/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/why-combat-memoir/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 12:09:55 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=1521 Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/why-combat-memoir/feed/ 0 Nine Reasons To Read Memoirs http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/eight-benefits-of-reading-memoirs/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/eight-benefits-of-reading-memoirs/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 11:14:17 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/eight-benefits-of-reading-memoirs/ Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/eight-benefits-of-reading-memoirs/feed/ 9 Recovering Self-concept after Trauma http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/self-concept-trauma/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/self-concept-trauma/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:55:09 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=1139 Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/self-concept-trauma/feed/ 3 More Q&A with Sue William Silverman on confessions, memoirs, and the art of writing http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/silverman-interview-pt2/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/silverman-interview-pt2/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:18:36 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=574 Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/silverman-interview-pt2/feed/ 2 Author Sue William Silverman Talks About Confessions, Memoirs, and the Craft of Writing http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/silverman-interview-pt1/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/silverman-interview-pt1/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:47:14 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=570 Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/silverman-interview-pt1/feed/ 8 Awakening bad memories helps shape your new life http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/how-awakening-pain-can-heal-it/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/how-awakening-pain-can-heal-it/#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:00:48 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/how-awakening-pain-can-heal-it/ Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/how-awakening-pain-can-heal-it/feed/ 3 0:00:01 Story moves you to the next step Instead of keeping memories trapped in their original form, free them up with story. 60's, Trauma Jerry Waxler no no Escaping the prison of what might have been http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/escaping-prison-past/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/escaping-prison-past/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:07:55 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=144 Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/escaping-prison-past/feed/ 4 0:00:01 I have met many men and women, who start out pointing in one direction, say towards a profession, or marriage and babies, or the family business. Then they end up somewhere else. Often the change in direction leaves them or their parents feeling con[...] I have met many men and women, who start out pointing in one direction, say towards a profession, or marriage and babies, or the family business. Then they end up somewhere else. Often the change in direction leaves them or their parents feeling confused, as if they have disrupted destiny or lost an important part of themselves. 60's, Storytelling, Trauma Jerry Waxler no no Storytellers shed light on the horrors of war http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/homer-iliad-ptsd/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/homer-iliad-ptsd/#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:25:59 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=136 Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/homer-iliad-ptsd/feed/ 3 0:00:01 Writing about the dehumanizing memories Pain is part of life, but should it be part of memoirs? To understand, I read and look for lessons within the most painful of all, war memoirs. Myths, Trauma Jerry Waxler no no Exclusive Interview with Xujun Eberlein Part 2 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/exclusive-interview-xujun-eberlein-2/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/exclusive-interview-xujun-eberlein-2/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 12:23:57 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=135 Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/exclusive-interview-xujun-eberlein-2/feed/ 9 Exclusive Interview with author Xujun Eberlein http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/exclusive-interview-with-author-xujun-eberlein/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/exclusive-interview-with-author-xujun-eberlein/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 12:09:21 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=134 Continue reading →]]> http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/exclusive-interview-with-author-xujun-eberlein/feed/ 16